As you may recall, the hubs came through with a telephoto lens for Christmas. Here are my latest feathered neighbors.
Mr. Stellar Jay
We saw lots of these in Southeast Alaska. I saw them out my window flying off with whole peanuts (in the shell) when a friend down the road put out nuts for squirrels. Ah, Alaskan entertainment, good times…
Here, they get the fast food version.
Mr. Red-breasted Sapsucker. He drills and then revisits to drink sap and find bugs. Same tree. One guy. Kinda in a rut.
He seems to be keeping his weight up for winter.
We like him. He’s sort of new for us.
Can’t leave out Woody, the pileated woodpecker. He’s the largest woodpecker in the North America. Over at Islandwood, trees have holes the size of ipods, rectangle-shaped, too, made by these guys.
We give suet, suet and more suet. And this is the thanks we get (imagine me, inside yelling, “Get off the tree! Get OFF the tree! Get on the SUET!! Right next to YOU!!).
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Love your photos!! Thanks for sharing. I did lots of bird watching in the past, but never captured the pretty ones with my camera! If they got too close to a tree, the squirrels always won! There wasn’t a seed the squirrels didn’t like.
Great photos. We don’t get stellar jays, just regular blue jays. We have a similar bird to the sappsucker (redheaded woodpeckers) and do get pileated woodpeckers. They are among my favorites. It’s my dream to see an Ivory Billed Woodpecker, but I know that it virtually impossible. I’m just happy knowing their continued existence has been confirmed.
Oh, wow, that stellar jay is gorgeous! We just get regular ole jays. However, during the summer, we gets TONS of little bluebirds and quadrillions of hummingbirds.
We don’t get the pileated woodpeckers, just the red-headed and downy woodpeckers.
My husband makes fun of me because I feed the birds. When I come home with more seed and suet he always says “So, I guess the WILD birds don’t know how to find their OWN food?”
He doesn’t get the birdwatching thing.
Caption for the second shot: “Help! I’m stuck on something!”
nice shoots.