Warm January Weekend

For a brief moment this past weekend I thought spring was on the way. The warm temperatures provided the opportunity for the bluebirds to visit us while searching for a few insects. I finally got a picture of one sitting on the edge of our roof. Caleb and I also went for a hike at Honey Run Waterfall Park. Now the temperature is well below freezing but at least I have the pictures!

Today's winter snow storm

Today we were able to get a lot of great pictures while the birds were feeding during the snow storm. The cardinals are beautiful as they standout against the snow.

  

Today's mission...

Today I decided to get a picture of the red-bellied woodpeckers that have been visiting our feeders. They have been the most difficult to photograph. They seem to notice every movement inside our home. So I closed all the blinds with the exception of one small opening hoping to conceal myself. I did not get any pictures only this video.


While editing the video a female red-bellied woodpecker stopped at our feeder. I slowly sat my laptop on the floor, grabbed my camera, and belly crawled to the couch to get the following pictures:

Like I said, I was on a mission today!

 

Winter visitors

The kids and I have been busy since school started but we have had quite a few visitors at our feeders. Below are a view pictures from the past couple months. We also built blue bird houses for our grandparents for Christmas.

 

 

Sunflowers

This week we cleaned out our flower beds. The sunflowers began to fall down on the ground. I saved the sunflowers that were loaded with seeds and placed then in the tree line by our house. You guessed it, the birds love them.

A pair of titmice have been spending a lot of time at the sunflowers as well as a few black capped chickadees but I was unable to get a picture of them.

Sunday's Finch Problem

The last few weeks...

Since school has started we have not had a lot of extra time for the birds but we have had a couple things happen worth noting. First, where did all the finches go? We no longer have a single finch visiting our feeders. Second, last night we spotted the neighborhood bald eagle flying over the tree line across from our house. We have not seen this all summer. Usually we would have to visit the nest to get glimpse of the eagles. And, lastly the black capped chickadee's are coming closer to the house now that the finches have left.