A barred owl at the Amos home in Wilton keeps a eye open for anything that might move. He seems to have become a day watchmen for them. Maybe he’ll stay in the garden this summer! (Jim Knox/Wilton)Spring popped right up against a warmed sunny wall. (Jane Knox/Brunswick)Winter duck (Goldeneye) family gathering ready to make its exodus. (Jane Knox/Brunswick)This house sparrow turned up to share my outcast mussels. Yum yum. (Jane Knox/Brunswick)Nothing more breathtaking than wings suspended in a strong wind. (Jane Knox/Brunswick)There’s a bright spot at the New Sharon Library. (Elizabeth (Stu) Mehlin/New Sharon)Now is the time to look at lichen. This Flavoparmelia caperata makes a tree green. (Elizabeth (Stu) Mehlin/New Sharon)
If you look closely, you can see delicate pastel colors of early spring. (Elizabeth (Stu) Mehlin/New Sharon) We have chickens. Three of the girls escaped from their run and decided to roost in a nearby tree on a beautiful spring afternoon on Voter Hill in West Farmington. (Maureen Martin/West Farmington)
@Bill….Thanks. We finally found it in our bird book. The book called it a Common Flicker. Googled it and it has quite a few names.
The owl would be welcome here at my home. I have a large crop of red squirrels that have beaten my security bird feeder—-though, at the beginning of the winter, I would have bet they never would have figured out how to fool the weighted perch.
According to the American Birding Association, the old name for the woodpecker in question is “Common Flicker”, and the name currently in use is “Northern Flicker”.
The bird that was at one time called “Slate-colored Junco” (and all the other Juncos found in the ABA area ) is now called the “Dark-eyed Junco”.
The ducks in flight may well be Red-breasted Mergansers who had gathered in and around the Goldeneye plumber ducks with the tell tale white circles and the sparrow eating the bugs coming to the discarded mussels is a Song Sparrow.
Ooops. Should be plumper not plumber ducks.
Also present in and around the same group is a pair of Buffleheads,
Thanks for all the beautiful pictures. I enjoy them very much.
I very much like Jane N’s cornfield. Nice perspective and depth.
Thank you. We needed that.
Jim – that owl shot is fantastic. Congratulations.
thanks again for all the exquisite photos. They sure are a delight………Keep them coming…
The link you’ve provided on the name “always learning” is an e-mail address (which should begin “mailto:” not “http://”), not a website. It really should not be included at all because your form says “Mail (will not be published)”. (This is the link on the name, not the other link at the bottom of “always learning”‘s comment.)
The link goes to an updated check list of North American birds.
Presently my favorite place at dailybulldog: “Outdoors”: always full of great nature shots by talented
local photographers that now renew the soul after such a long Maine winter!
The Bird is a Northern Flicker.
@Bill….Thanks. We finally found it in our bird book. The book called it a Common Flicker. Googled it and it has quite a few names.
The owl would be welcome here at my home. I have a large crop of red squirrels that have beaten my security bird feeder—-though, at the beginning of the winter, I would have bet they never would have figured out how to fool the weighted perch.
According to the American Birding Association, the old name for the woodpecker in question is “Common Flicker”, and the name currently in use is “Northern Flicker”.
The bird that was at one time called “Slate-colored Junco” (and all the other Juncos found in the ABA area ) is now called the “Dark-eyed Junco”.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/updates/
The ducks in flight may well be Red-breasted Mergansers who had gathered in and around the Goldeneye plumber ducks with the tell tale white circles and the sparrow eating the bugs coming to the discarded mussels is a Song Sparrow.
Ooops. Should be plumper not plumber ducks.
Also present in and around the same group is a pair of Buffleheads,
Thanks for all the beautiful pictures. I enjoy them very much.
I very much like Jane N’s cornfield. Nice perspective and depth.
Thank you. We needed that.
Jim – that owl shot is fantastic. Congratulations.
thanks again for all the exquisite photos. They sure are a delight………Keep them coming…
The link you’ve provided on the name “always learning” is an e-mail address (which should begin “mailto:” not “http://”), not a website. It really should not be included at all because your form says “Mail (will not be published)”. (This is the link on the name, not the other link at the bottom of “always learning”‘s comment.)
The link goes to an updated check list of North American birds.
Presently my favorite place at dailybulldog: “Outdoors”: always full of great nature shots by talented
local photographers that now renew the soul after such a long Maine winter!
Great Pictures!! I enjoyed the journey.