SPRING ARRIVALS

SOME APRIL BIRDS

TREE SPARROW APRIL 28, 2013



WHITE- THROATED  SPARROW



THE HOARY REDPOLL, A WINTER BIRD STILL AROUND APRIL 28

PURPLE FINCH ES

SYNCHRONIZED EATING

RUSTY BLACKBIRD, APRIL 29

YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER APRIL 29, 2013

SNOWSHOE CHANGING

SNOWSHOE RABBIT APRIL 23, 2013

Snowshoe Rabbit April 23 2013

FOX SPARROW

FIRST FOX SPARROW OF 2013

This time there were two of them and in plain sight. Noon, April 23

8:30 A.M.

April 23, 2013

Getting the camera to ignore the branches was not easy.

The bare ground under the spruce is completely scratched up
so this fellow has been here since just after daylight.

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SPRING IS IN THE HEART

RUFFED GROUSE APRIL 22, 2013

One good thing about his courting, it's very slow.

WAITING FOR SPRING

THE FIRST JUNCO

Junco being joined by a Redpoll
April 19, 2013

Junco and Hoary Redpoll April, 19, 2013

Junco, April 19, 2013

Blizzard of April 19, 2013

April 20, 2013

Sunrise April 20, 2013. A beautiful day.

However, I think Spring will be a while coming.
April 20, 2013

EVENING GROSBEAK

EVENING GROSBEAK
Hesperiphona vespertina
April 1, 2013

Female Evening Grosbeak
Much of the male golden colour
 is replaced by a grayish feathers in the female.

Size 8 inches.

I have a bird book that says its song is a sweet warble. Now, I have heard that once in about 1986 when I tracked an unknown song to a female Evening Grosbeak in my birch tree. I haven't heard it since. Mostly it is just a" metallic cry", or chattering, as they perch in the tree tops waiting to come down to the feeders. Good thing they look so "glamorous".

This is our other "winter" Grosbeak
The Pine Grosbeak
Pinicola enuceator
Size 9 inches