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We'll share birds from two different types of forest we've recently visited. Near our home in Seattle is a forest where we often see song sparrows, spotted towhees, Steller's jays, Bewick's wrens, and once we even saw a pileated woodpecker. Last week we took a trip to the forests near Sisters, Oregon where we saw Williamson's sapsuckers, white-headed woodpeckers, western bluebirds, common nighthawks, and pygmy nuthatches.
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Activity 2. We are going to plant some more native bird-friendly plants in our yard/garden. We are also going to keep working on reducing plastic.
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We have been observing Black-capped Chickadees at our feeder for the past 3 months. In the last 2 weeks or so we have noticed a change in their behaviors. They used to come to the feeder one at a time, take one seed, fly away to a tree to eat it before returning for another seed and then repeating this a few times. Lately, a group of 3-8 chickadees will congregate at the feeder, take many seeds before flying away, making lots of noise and ruffling their feathers frequently, even scaring away larger birds like finches.
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In their summer breeding plumage, we notice Common Loons have black beaks, red eyes, a green-black band around the neck. They also have more distinctive markings. They are checkered black and white on their back. In the winter, the beak is gray, the eyes are less red, and their colors are more simple, with a white underside and a gray upperside. Where we live, we can only see Common Loons in winter nonbreeding plumage. We'd like to travel to where they breed to see their patterns.
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ACTIVITY 3: 1. We watched 2 crows picking up popcorn spilled near a picnic bench. They tried to fill their beak with as many pieces as possible. It was funny to see them dropping almost as many pieces as they picked up. We just thought they were being greedy. Later, we noticed one of the crows fly into a nest. Then we watched the crow feed its babies several times as it flew back and forth with more food. 2. We watched a brown creeper hopping up tree trunks in search of insects, then flying quickly down to start over again. 3. We watched a hairy woodpecker eating from out suet feeder.
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Two Hairy Woodpeckers on our suet feeder. A Mallard family at Volunteer Park. A Bushtit nest in a neighbor's tree.
Two Hairy Woodpeckers on our suet feeder. A Mallard family at Volunteer Park. A Bushtit nest in a neighbor's tree. Viewing 6 posts - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)