Sunday, May 15, 2011
Red Headed Woodpeckers
A few shots of my red headed woodpeckers in my backyard. They have been coming here since the year 2000. These are the off spring. The original pair never returned last year but instead I had 2 new birds. They are back again this year.
Red Headed Woodpecker Pair
My yard these days has just been a huge splash of color. The orioles,warblers tanagers and now the red headed woodpeckers. Both arrived the same day on the 11th. And today they were both here in my feeding area at the same time. It was wonderful. All these photos were taken through my kitchen window so as not to scare the birds away.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Scarlet tanager and red headed woodpecker
My red headed woodpecker pair both returned on the 11th of May. They called and chased each other around having a grand time. Did not come to feeders as yet. Thursday I had a real surprise of a pair of scarlet tanagers. I didn't realize the female was there until she flew. Which explained his strange behavior. She really blended into the tree as the leaves were coming out.
Baltimore oriloes
My backyard has been full of color this last week. A walk around the point yielded over 30 baltimore orioles. 13 or so have come to my backyard daily. The first 3 photos have an oriole of a very pretty mottled pattern and color.
Algonquin P.Park,May,14/11
A few photos from a trip today to Algonquin with Murray of
murray@authenticcanadantours.ca
We saw some beautiful purple finches in the trees by the visitor's center,the young bull moose running across the road and a couple people in a canoe having a nice quiet ride down the river.Although it did rain on & off on us, we had a grand time. Other things we saw were yellow warblers, black throated blue warblers,blue jays,ruffed grouse,crows,ravens,turkey vultures & chickadees,pileated woodpecker. Loons,ring necked ducks,mallards and common mergansers.A ground hog and of coarse the moose. Heard ovenbirds,and yellow bellied sapsuckers.
My daughter Karen in the foreground,( thinking she was out of the way) Gottch ya. And the ever so popular look for my latetest trips to Algonquin. Walking in the rain with umbrellas. Gotta love it!!
murray@authenticcanadantours.ca
We saw some beautiful purple finches in the trees by the visitor's center,the young bull moose running across the road and a couple people in a canoe having a nice quiet ride down the river.Although it did rain on & off on us, we had a grand time. Other things we saw were yellow warblers, black throated blue warblers,blue jays,ruffed grouse,crows,ravens,turkey vultures & chickadees,pileated woodpecker. Loons,ring necked ducks,mallards and common mergansers.A ground hog and of coarse the moose. Heard ovenbirds,and yellow bellied sapsuckers.
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