David's Images of the Day Photoblog
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.
The predicted winter snowstorm didn’t happen. When I woke up there was barely a dusting of snow on the ground. Once the sun came out there were lots of birds at the feeders. Dark-eyed Junco, Mourning Dove, Marsh Wren, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Blue Jay, House Finch, Tufted Titmouse, and Northern Cardinal. I wasn’t able to get any suet at the meat market this week. They gave me some pork fat instead. Initially the birds ignored it. The Red-bellied Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse and Marsh Wren finally started to nibble on it.
Individual images from the slide shows can be viewed here.
It warmed up enough to melt some water in the copper bird bath. The solar-powered pump was able to create several streams of water through the ice.