spring day 2019

Spring day 2019 you can find more of these  birds the cardinals doves and so on further in my blog with sounds

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cardinal 

dove

Junco

carolina wren 

White brested nuthatch

 white breasted nuthatch--sound
they love seeds the nutty types and love insects
they hide nuts in the bark of trees  and that is how they get the name Nuthatch

Rhode island birds, red winged black bird, woodpecker, gold finch

I do love watching my back yard and my feeders  some new faces all the time

Red winged blackbird--- sound 

a very common Blackbird he was my NH high school mascot 

Downy woodpecker sound 

they say is the smallest woodpecker 

Male Goldfinch   sound

the male goldfinch gets bright yellow during mate finding and

 during the winter they are an olive color they love feeders so watch for them

Brown-headed Cowbird

The Brown-headed cowbird has become very common across

The country this is a male black body, thick beak brown head  the

Female  is a lighter shade of brown all over

same dark beak the juvenal is a little slimmer and is speckled brown, black and white. 

a problem with this bird is it likes to lay their eggs in nests of others causing

a decline in other species. because they are feeding the bigger cowbird baby more than their own baby's keeping up is hard.

in the old days they would follow cattle and eat the

Bugs that cattle stirred up from the grass. Sound

this is a ren feeding a cowbird the cowbirds mom left her egg in the rens nest for her to raise