Posts Focusing on Specific Bird Species
This week, we got a fun new feathered visitor to the yard, a Red-Breasted Nuthatch. We regularly see White-Breasted Nuthatches, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen this type of nuthatch in the yard, or anywhere for that matter. In our area, they are occasionally seen in the woods up among the pines rather than at feeders, but I’m hearing that this year there is an irruption of Red-Breasted Nuthatches.
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Fall American Goldfinches are some of the most active birds in my yard. Unless there is a hawk around badgering the flock, they are all over my feeders.
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Yesterday, a juvenile Common Yellowthroat unexpectedly visited my yard. Here in Maryland, we are at the very end of the annual fall warbler migration. There are still a few stragglers around. But most have already passed through on their way to warmer winter quarters well to the south.
Yesterday though, I was sitting on my back step watching birds and came across this little Common Yellowthroat. He had faint black patches on his cheeks, so I think he is a juvenile male who hasn’t gotten his full dark black mask yet.
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