Cardinals in the snow are always a delight!
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
This cold weather has usher in several flocks of evening grosbeaks across NC. I counted six at my feeders today, gorging on sunflower seeds.
I am currently reading The Snow Geese by William Fiennes. It’s a travelogue/memoire about the author after he recovers from a major illness and decides to follow the snow goose migration from Texas to the Arctic.
So far so good.
Here's a White Crowned Sparrow looking to score some seeds in the snow this morning...
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"The future ain't what it used to be."
On the river recently:
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(sorry they are sideways)
Love the anhinga.
"That young man has an extra step on his ladder the rest of us just don't have."
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
Nice catch! The cardinals have been out in force the past week or two. It is not uncommon for me to see a dozen at a time at and around the feeders these days.
Also saw this Pine Warbler yesterday...
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"The future ain't what it used to be."
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Wednesday during my lunch walk, before the cold front came in.
Got this Cooper's Hawk after it tried to terrorize the birds at my feeder earlier this week.
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"The future ain't what it used to be."
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Y'all might enjoy some of the HD On Tap wildlife livestreams.
https://hdontap.com/
There are a couple trained on eagles' nests in Pennsylvania. Eagle is on the nest in the one below as of this posting.
https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/...eagle-live-cam
They've also got some in owl boxes, at feeders, in migratory destinations for snow geese, sand hill cranes and other species. Obviously, some of these are only interesting and active during certain times of year.
They also have mammal stuff. Pffft.
I've been seeing bluebirds again recently, after we failed to get them to nest in our yard last year because we put up two houses too close together.
I took down the oldest of the feeders last fall, so now we have only one, and it's a nice one. Really hoping that the bluebirds will choose our yard!