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  • A back-lit feeder with a few friendly visitors
    Full Feeder Backlit.jpg
  • A goldfinch perched on a red feeder as evening light sets in
    Goldfinch On Evening Feeder.jpg
  • A Red-Belied Woodpecker On A White Swing Feeder.
    Woody On Feeder.jpg
  • A Bold Red Male Cardinal Stops By The Feeder For A Quick Snack
    Male Cardinal Green Feeder.jpg
  • A cardinal lands on my swing feeder late in the evening light
    Redbird On My Feeder.jpg
  • A male and female house finch on the feeder at the same time
    Finch Feeder.jpg
  • Red Male House Finch rocking on a red bird-feeder filled with fresh seed
    Red Male House Finch-G.jpg
  • The Red-bellied Woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker of the Picidae family. It breeds in southern Canada and the northeastern United States, ranging as far south as Florida and as far west as Texas.
    Woody Behind The Feeder.jpg
  • A Male Northern Cardinals perched on a white feeder in the midst of a cold winter snow storm. The vibrant Cardinal red contrast against the chilly blues and white snow. The Northern Cardinal is a North American bird in the genus Cardinalis, it is also known colloquially as the redbird or common cardinal.<br />
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The Northern Cardinal or "Redbird" is probably one of most popular visitors to backyard bird feeders. Its range extends over most of the eastern USA, parts of extreme southeastern Canada, and south through Mexico to Belize. It has also been introduced to Hawaii. Its variable call, a loud "cheer cheer cheer" or "purty purty purty," is sung by both sexes and can be heard year round. Cardinals are nonmigratory, but some movement does occur in the later summer and fall.<br />
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The male Northern Cardinal is perhaps responsible for getting more people to open up a field guide than any other bird. They're a perfect combination of familiarity, conspicuousness, and style: a shade of red you can't take your eyes off. Even the brown females sport a sharp crest and warm red accents. Cardinals don't migrate and they don't molt into a dull plumage, so they're still breathtaking in winter's snowy backyards. In summer, their sweet whistles are one of the first sounds of the morning.
    Chilly Cardinal Blues.jpg
  • A Red-Bellied Woodpecker Pays a Visit To My White Swing Feeder For a Lunch Reservation
    Red-Belly Comes For Lunch.jpg
  • Snowflakes land on this closeup photograph of a Tufted Titmouse perched on a red bird feeder in winter, contrasted against a vibrant sparking green backdrop
    Titmouse Lime.jpg
  • A Chipping Sparrow makes a splash in the birdseed on a red feeder on a sunny afternoon.
    Chipping Sparrow in Warm Light.jpg
  • A Female Northern Cardinal Perched on a Red Bird Feeder with some fun pastel colors and sharp impressions.
    Female Cardinal Pastelation.jpg
  • Snaggletooth Squirrel.jpg
  • A Tufted Titmouse Visits The Feeder
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  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch grabs a safflower seed from a feeder
    Nuthatch Grabs Some Safflower.jpg
  • A Titmouse peeks down below to see what all the commotion is about under the bird feeder
    Titmouse Peekdown.jpg
  • A Downy Woodpecker takes off from a white swing feeder after grabbing a snack
    Fly Away Downy.jpg
  • A tiny Downy Woodpecker grabs some suet from the bird feeder on a cold winter day
    Hello Winter Downy.jpg
  • A Red Bellied Woodpecker On My White Swing Feeder Taken Using A Zoom Blur Technique
    Red Belly Daze.jpg
  • A small downy woodpecker visits my feeder under warm autumn foliage
    Downy Autumn Tree.jpg
  • Caught this little Tufted Titmouse coming into the feeder for a splash landing :)
    Tufted Titmouse-J.jpg
  • This handsome little finch, the state bird of New Jersey, Iowa, and Washington, is welcome and common at feeders, where it takes primarily sunflower and nyjer. Goldfinches often flock with Pine Siskins and Common Redpolls. Spring males are brilliant yellow and shiny black with a bit of white. Females and all winter birds are more dull but identifiable by their conical bill; pointed, notched tail; wingbars; and lack of streaking. During molts they look bizarrely patchy.
    American Goldfinch - 1.jpg
  • This handsome little finch, the state bird of New Jersey, Iowa, and Washington, is welcome and common at feeders, where it takes primarily sunflower and nyjer. Goldfinches often flock with Pine Siskins and Common Redpolls. Spring males are brilliant yellow and shiny black with a bit of white. Females and all winter birds are more dull but identifiable by their conical bill; pointed, notched tail; wingbars; and lack of streaking. During molts they look bizarrely patchy.
    American Goldfinch - 3.jpg
  • This handsome little finch, the state bird of New Jersey, Iowa, and Washington, is welcome and common at feeders, where it takes primarily sunflower and nyjer. Goldfinches often flock with Pine Siskins and Common Redpolls. Spring males are brilliant yellow and shiny black with a bit of white. Females and all winter birds are more dull but identifiable by their conical bill; pointed, notched tail; wingbars; and lack of streaking. During molts they look bizarrely patchy.
    American Goldfinch - 2.jpg
  • The red-bellied woodpecker is not technically considered a migratory bird. Woodpeckers build their nests within the relatively sheltered trunks of trees, which allows them to stay warm during cold weather. Because of the recent expansion of their breeding range, many woodpeckers are showing more migratory behavior during the coldest months of the year, moving south to the milder locations within their breeding territory over the winter.
    Must Be Spring - Redbelly Returns.jpg
  • A Male Northern Cardinal Perched on a Metal Pole - Side Angle Pose
    Male Northern Cardinal on Pole.jpg
  • Red-Belly Eating Suet.jpg
  • A Male Northern Cardinal Perched on a Metal Pole - Side Angle Pose
    Male Northern Cardinal on Pole 2.jpg
  • Red-Bellied Texture.jpg
  • Red Bellied on Swing 5.jpg
  • The adult female Brown-headed Cowbird is slightly smaller than the male and is dull grey with a pale throat and very fine streaking on the underparts.
    Flowing Female Cowbird.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-E.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-D.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-H.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-G.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-C.jpg
  • Red-Bellied Woodpecker-A.jpg
  • A Tufted Titmouse Perched on Metal Pole with flowing details
    Flowing Tufted Titmouse.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-I.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-I.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-H.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-F.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-C.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-E.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-A.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-D.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-A.jpg
  • Red Male House Finch-B.jpg
  • Female Amarican Goldfinch.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-J.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-F.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse-B.jpg
  • Red Male House Finch-A.jpg
  • The Black-capped Chickadee is a small, North American songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada.
    BCCH Defined.jpg
  • White-Breasted Nuthatch-G.jpg
  • A Sparrow Waits For The Feeder To Be Filled
    Lonely Feeder.jpg
  • A tufted titmouse gets protective of the feeder when an incoming sparrow approaches
    Back off My Feeder.jpg
  • Yes, yes, I hear you out there, I'll fill your feeder Mr. Titmouse!
    Tufted - Fill My Feeder.jpg
  • The Downy Woodpecker is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America. The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodlots, where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches, barely outsizing them.
    Downy on Winter Feeder.jpg
  • Tufted on Red Feeder.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse Leaping from Feeder.jpg
  • Male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak on Feede...jpg
  • Male Brown-Headed Cowbird on Feeder.jpg
  • Male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak on Feede...jpg
  • Nuthatch on Feeder.jpg
  • Snaggletooth Squirrel on Red Feeder.jpg
  • Male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak on Feede...jpg
  • Female House Finch on Red Feeder.jpg
  • Feeder Titmouse Cardinal.jpg
  • Downy Woodpecker on Feeder.jpg
  • Chipping Sparrow Feeder Edge.jpg
  • Male Northern Cardinal on Feeder.jpg
  • Female Cowbird on Feeder.jpg
  • The Ruby-throated Hummingbird does not show a strong preference for any particular color of feeder. Instead, it prefers specific feeder locations. uby-throated Hummingbirds normally place their nest on a branch of a deciduous or coniferous tree; however, these birds are accustomed to human habitation and have been known to nest on loops of chain, wire, and extension cords.<br />
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You can attract Ruby-throated Hummingbirds to your backyard by setting up hummingbird feeders or by planting tubular flowers. Make sugar water mixtures with about one-quarter cup of sugar per cup of water. Food coloring is unnecessary; table sugar is the best choice. Change the water before it grows cloudy or discolored and remember that during hot weather, sugar water ferments rapidly to produce toxic alcohol. Be careful about where you put your hummingbird feeders, as some cats have learned to lie in wait to catch visiting hummingbirds.<br />
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The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is a species of hummingbird. As with all hummingbirds, this species belongs to the Trochilidae family and is currently included in the Apodiformes order.
    Flutter Hummer.jpg
  • Tufted Titmouse hanging out just swining on the brid feeder.
    just_a_swingin.jpg
  • A Tufted Titmouse lands on a feeder with a bit of an artistic flare
    Tufted Landing Flow.jpg
  • A Tufted Titmouse keeps an eye on me in the yard, deciding when it may be safe to fly to the feeder
    Tufted Keeps an Eye On Me.jpg
  • Bursting with black, white, and rose-red, male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are like an exclamation mark at your bird feeder or in your binoculars
    Male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak On Branc...jpg
  • A Common Grackle Peeks Down Deciding If He Should Swoop Into The Feeder
    Grackle Peeking Down.jpg
  • The spotted hyena is a skillful hunter but also a scavenger. Truly an opportunistic feeder, it selects the easiest and most attractive food it may ignore fresh carrion and bones if there is, for example, an abundance of vulnerable wildebeest calves. It consumes animals of various types and sizes (including domestic stock and even other hyenas), carrion, bones, vegetable matter and other animals' droppings. The powerful jaws and digestive tract of the hyena allow it to process and obtain nutrients from skin and bones. The only parts of prey not fully digested are hair, horns and hooves; these are regurgitated in the form of pellets. As hyenas hunt mostly at night and devour all parts, little evidence remains of their actual meals. Although they eat a lot of dry bones, they need little water.
    Heyana With a Bone.jpg
  • An Evil Grackle Eyes a Nearby Feeder waiting for an innocent bird to approach so he can torment them.
    Ominous Molting Grackle.jpg
  • A Tufted Titmouse Looks Back At The Camera From Atop The Feeder Pole
    Tufted Texture.jpg
  • A squirrel stops by for a quick snacking grabbing some seeds from the garden bed that had fallen from the feeder above
    Squirrely Visitor.jpg
  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch Lands On The Gazebo Bird Feeder To Grab Some Sunflower Seeds
    Nuthatch At The Gazebo.jpg
  • An Eagle grabs a fishy snack to cure a powerful appetite. The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the White-tailed Eagle.<br />
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The Bald Eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops down and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species.<br />
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The plumage of an adult Bald Eagle is evenly dark brown with a white head and tail. The tail is moderately long and slightly wedge-shaped. Males and females are identical in plumage coloration, but sexual dimorphism is evident in the species in that females are 25 percent larger than males. The beak, feet and irides are bright yellow.<br />
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There are two subspecies of bald eagles. The "southern" bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus, is found in the Gulf States from Texas and Baja California across to South Carolina and Florida, south of 40 degrees north latitude. The "northern" bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus, is found north of 40 degrees north latitude across the entire continent. The largest numbers of northern bald eagles are in the Northwest, especially in Alaska. The "northern" bald eagle is slightly larger than the "southern" bald eagle. Studies have shown that "northern" bald eagles fly into the southern states and Mexico, and the "southern" bald eagles fly north into Canada. Because of these finding, the subspecies of "northern" and "southern" bald eagles has been discontinued in recent literature.
    Bald Eagle Snacks.jpg
  • A Red-Bellied Woodpecker with a bit of artistic flare on my favorite bird feeder.
    Visions of a Red Bellied Woodpecker.jpg
  • A Red-Bellied Woodpecker perched on the side of a white feeder swing, ready to grab a bite.
    Red Bellied on Swing 6.jpg
  • A Tufted Titmouse comes in for a landing on a white seed feeder occupied by a sparrow
    Titmouse Incoming.jpg
  • A little gray bird with an echoing voice, the Tufted Titmouse is common in eastern deciduous forests and a frequent visitor to feeders.
    Afternoon Titmouse.jpg
  • Miss Finch Stopped By The Feeders For A Quick Bite and A Bath
    Miss Finch In The Flower Garden.jpg
  • The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodlots, where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches, barely outsizing them. An often acrobatic forager, this black-and-white woodpecker is at home on tiny branches or balancing on slender plant galls, sycamore seed balls, and suet feeders.
    Monday Morning Downy.jpg
  • A Female Dark-Eyed Junco Foraging For Food in the Snow During A Cold Blue Winter Day.<br />
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Females and juvenile birds are generally paler and show a greater mixture of brown in the plumage. Generally, there is less white on the outer tail feathers in juvenile and female birds. There is, however, much individual variation.<br />
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The Dark-eyed Junco is the best-known species of the juncos, a genus of small grayish American sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. Dark-eyed Juncos are neat, even flashy little sparrows that flit about forest floors of the western mountains and Canada, then flood the rest of North America for winter. They're easy to recognize by their crisp (though extremely variable) markings and the bright white tail feathers they habitually flash in flight. One of the most abundant forest birds of North America, you'll see juncos on woodland walks as well as in flocks at your feeders or on the ground beneath them. <br />
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Juncos are the "snowbirds" of the middle latitudes. Over most of the eastern United States, they appear as winter sets in and then retreat northward each spring. Some juncos in the Appalachian Mountains remain there all year round, breeding at the higher elevations. These residents have shorter wings than the migrants that join them each winter. Longer wings are better suited to flying long distances, a pattern commonly noted among other studies of migratory vs. resident species.
    Blue Christmas Junco.jpg
  • This blue jay was resting under a heat lamp on a cold and snowy winter day in my Missouri backyard. Having a pretty close vantage point I was able to get a dent amount of detail in the feathers of this lovely bird. A close look reveals the water droplets from the falling snow that has melted from the heat of the lamp.<br />
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The Blue Jay is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to North America. It is resident through most of eastern and central United States and southern Canada, although western populations may be migratory.<br />
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This common, large songbird is familiar to many people, with its perky crest; blue, white, and black plumage; and noisy calls. Blue Jays are known for their intelligence and complex social systems with tight family bonds. Their fondness for acorns is credited with helping spread oak trees after the last glacial period.<br />
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Blue Jays prefer tray feeders or hopper feeders on a post rather than hanging feeders, and they prefer peanuts, sunflower seeds, and suet. Planting oak trees will make acorns available for jays of the future. Blue Jays often take drinks from birdbaths.
    Winter Heat Blue Jay.jpg
  • The smallest North American woodpecker, the downy woodpecker is also one of the most common and most readily recognized not only because of its size, but also because it will readily visit backyards and feeders.
    Downy Woodpecker on Tree.jpg
  • Among the bird world’s most skillful fliers, Cooper’s Hawks are common woodland hawks that tear through cluttered tree canopies in high speed pursuit of other birds. You’re most likely to see one prowling above a forest edge or field using just a few stiff wingbeats followed by a glide. With their smaller lookalike, the Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawks make for famously tricky identifications. Both species are sometimes unwanted guests at bird feeders, looking for an easy meal
    Juvenile Coopers Hawk.jpg
  • The Tufted Titmouse is a small songbird from North America, a species in the tit and chickadee family. The active and noisy tufted, North America's most widespread titmouse, is remarkably uniform morphologically, genetically, vocally, and behaviorally throughout its range. Besides gleaning trees and shrubs for arthropods, it spends more time on the ground searching leaf litter than do chickadees and most other titmouse species.<br />
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A little gray bird with an echoing voice, the Tufted Titmouse is common in eastern deciduous forests and a frequent visitor to feeders. The large black eyes, small, round bill, and brushy crest gives these birds a quiet but eager expression that matches the way they flit through canopies, hang from twig-ends, and drop in to bird feeders. When a titmouse finds a large seed, you'll see it carry the prize to a perch and crack it with sharp whacks of its stout bill. <br />
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Tufted Titmice are acrobatic foragers, if a bit slower and more methodical than chickadees. They often flock with chickadees, nuthatches, and woodpeckers and are regular visitors to feeders, where they are assertive over smaller birds. Their flight tends to be fluttery but level rather than undulating.
    Tufted Titmouse Twinkle.jpg