I love birds and we have been very lucky this year to have many different avian friends drop by our house. I have always been especially fond of Owls and Woodpeckers & we have quite a few of both varieties where we live. Last week DH gave me this wonderful book - it has some glorious photos.
These Downy Woodpeckers are daily visitors to our feeders -they seem to be especially fond of suet.
Northern Flickers are one of my favorites - they also are daily visitors .Highly visible & breathtakingly lovely
I think this is one of the sweetest photos in the book!
Two Northern Flicker babies waiting for breakfast.
Oh what an owl! I wish I could say we had these guys visiting every day! I always tell DH that I wish I could see more owls -he calmly responds " honey, you have to be awake after 10pm to be able to see them.." Oh! yes, well that's a thought!
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Don't you love to get a special book? One year the Pileated Woodpecker nested in a snag visible from the house, so we could watch the youngster grow.
Had my lunch yesterday sitting with avian visitors high over the river Wharfe in teh Yorkshire Dales: piccies on my blog!
You need to read A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey about his bird watching "ordeals". And isn't watching your birds a wonderful form of meditation.
I miss hearing them! I used to have several pairs in the woods behind the house and they all "talked" back and forth...it got so they answered us too...
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