by simpleDesigns | Mar 3, 2009 | Birding
Birding this past month has had a few surprises and a whole host of usual suspects. White-winged Crossbills and 100’s of Common Redpolls were the newest additions to our back yard list. Chickadee, Downy, WB Nuthatch, Cardinal, Crow and Dove are in the yard...
by simpleDesigns | Feb 24, 2009 | Birding
During our afternoon walk today, Biggs (our dog) ran underneath a large evergreen and spooked 5-6 birds. After a brief look, I thought I’d seen either some Pine Grosbeak or possibly White-winged Crossbills. We cut our walk a bit short, raced home for binoculars and...
by simpleDesigns | Feb 21, 2009 | Birding, Photography
Woodpeckers: We recorded 7 new species of woodpeckers (out of the 28 species that live in Peru) on our South America trip. The variety of color and markings was amazing and due to their size, they are relatively easy to find in the camera. Here are pictures of the...
by simpleDesigns | Feb 19, 2009 | Birding
For the past several weeks, we have had a tremendous amount of Common Redpolls visiting our back yard. It was predicted that they would be among the finch species to move south of their usual range (from Alaska into Canada’s high Arctic country ) because of...
