David's Images of the Day Photoblog
It is supposed to snow again Saturday and Sunday then get real cold. I will have to go to the Sourland Mountain Preserve and see if the pond freezes over this year. Since this image was taken ten-years ago, it rarely gets cold enough for the pond to freeze. Somerset county park workers finally removed the sign from the middle of the pond. As you can see from the second image, the sign did look out of place in the middle of the summer.
Dark-eyed Junco and Marsh Wren at the bird feeders. The Marsh Wren has a pointed beak that is good for picking at things (i.e. the suet), but not good for opening sunflower seeds. When it stops at the bird feeder filled with sunflower seeds it pushes the seeds to the ground. The squirrels and doves are happy…
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A Marsh Wren kept pushing whole sunflower seeds out of the bird feeder while looking for opened seeds. By the afternoon the feeder was almost empty, and the squirrels below were happy.
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House Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Marsh Wren, and Squirrel.
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I’m not sure of the ID of bird in the first two images. It looks like the dark-eyed junco’s, but it has a brown rather than grey and black feathers.