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Sunsets and Woodpecker
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This photo wasn't the year's first sunset but rather the first one that was really a "wow". Loved the colors.
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yourlibrarian This photo wasn't the year's first sunset but rather the first one that was really a "wow". Loved the colors.
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Photos: Contorta Willow
Jan. 10th, 2026 05:11 pmysabetwordsmithI took some pictures yesterday but didn't have time to upload and post them until today. The night before, a windstorm blew down the contorta willow sapling that used to stand between the house yard and the south lot, near the big maple tree.
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Photos: Sunset
Jan. 4th, 2026 09:06 pmysabetwordsmithTonight I happened to glance out the window and spotted a colorful sunset. So I grabbed my camera and ran outside to take pictures. This gets me started on my goal of taking and posting photos at least once per season. \o/
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adorable tits
Feb. 21st, 2025 05:41 pmturloughIt's been a long time since I've had Long-Tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus caudatus) visiting my feeders in winter but now they're suddenly here every day. It started Saturday with only two of them:
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Every day they brought more and more friends and this morning there were ( five of them... )
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Every day they brought more and more friends and this morning there were ( five of them... )
Leave only footprints...
Feb. 19th, 2025 09:49 amcalzephyrThe bird feeder had a visit from grey partridges the other day. I've accidentally startled them before--the sparrows toss seed down from the bird feeder and they don't care for corn--but it was so polite of them to use the sidewalk :-D
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early snowdrops
Jan. 23rd, 2025 06:36 pmturloughWas suprised to see the first Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) by a house wall this morning. While it hasn't been really cold, it hasn't been particularly warm either, and I haven't seen any anywhere else. This is a rather sheltered, southward facing spot though and I suspect the house (it's quite old) isn't very well insulated.
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on a cold frosty morning
Dec. 13th, 2024 08:57 pmturloughWe have no snow here in southeastern Sweden, but after a couple of clear and cold nights (with overcast days, alas) the heavy frost covering everything looks very pretty.
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Wildflower Garden
Feb. 23rd, 2024 10:58 pmysabetwordsmithI took some pictures of the wildflower garden today after I finished cleaning it up. I leave things through the winter because some of the plants, like the northern sea oats and echinacea, have seeds for wildlife. I pick off and plant a lot of the seeds but never get around to all of them. Goldfinches especially like to cling to the seedheads and peck out the seeds.
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winter birds
Nov. 27th, 2023 08:41 pmturloughIn England the Robin might be the Christmas bird par excellence, but here in Sweden it's the Bullfinch so even though it's a week until Advent I still thought it very apt that the first birds I saw on my feeder this wintry morning were two male Bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
a new visitor
Mar. 11th, 2023 07:09 pmturloughThis morning a Jay (Garrulus glandarius) showed up at my bird feeders for the first time ever.
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beautiful bird!
Jan. 31st, 2023 07:33 pmturloughA small flock of Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis) visiting my feeders today and managed to get a pretty good photo of one of them. They're such beautiful birds but I'm grateful they don't visit very often - the rate they consume hemp seeds would soon ruin my finances :-)
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a new visitor
Jan. 25th, 2023 06:14 pmturloughI had a new visitor at my feeders today, a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes). I haven't seen one of those in at least fifteen years!
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Female Bullfinch outside my window
Jan. 15th, 2023 05:13 pmturloughThis afternoon a small flock of Bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) visited the maple outside my window and I managed to take this photo sequence of one of the females.
First she was crunching a seed
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( then she digested it... )
First she was crunching a seed
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Peanut Success
Dec. 12th, 2022 06:34 amnanila
It was snowing all yesterday in rural Worcestershire, UK, so the peanut feeder was especially busy. This industrious blue tit was very pleased with its success.
waxwings in the sun
Feb. 14th, 2021 07:49 pmturloughSaw a small flock of Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulu) today and managed to take a couple of rather nice photos:
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long-tailed tit
Jan. 12th, 2021 09:12 pmturloughManaged to take quite a nice photo of a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) this morning.
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