Took a little time to cool off and do some birding after shoveling the driveway,sidewalk and patio this morning. I was hoping to get some shots of the Chipping Sparrow ( that has been visiting my feeders since Sunday) posed on some snow covered foliage. The Chipper never landed on the snow covered parts of the bushes so all I got were photos of it on the ground. While sitting behind my camera waiting for the sparrow to cooperate, I heard a different bird up in the Sycamore tree. It turned out to be a Rusty Blackbird. It's only my second Rusty Blackbird sighting in my yard, the first was of three birds flying over with a group of Red-Winged Blackbirds during migration last October.
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| Rusty Blackbird |
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| Chipping Sparrow stil hanging around |
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| Dark-eyed Junco |
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| Northern Cardinal |
Hopefully the Chipping Sparrow will hang around until next weekend for the Great Backyard Bird Count. Here is a link to the GBBC website
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc .
Hi Mark, hope all is well!
ReplyDeleteI have had an odd duck in my backyard twice (that I know of) this year
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See you in September,
Greg in Lansing
Hey Greg, That Junco would have had me flipping through some books.
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