Showing posts with label yard birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yard birds. Show all posts
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Friday, September 22, 2017
Northern Wheatear
We had a very rare visitor in our backyard today in Forestville, New York (Town of Sheridan). The Northern Wheatear breeds in the high Arctic and migrates to Africa for the winter season. This beauty was apparently thrown off course by recent tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean and made a pit stop to feast on grasshoppers right outside my kitchen window! I'm still in awe of how the bird found the birder late in the day on this magical autumnal equinox.
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This tropical hibiscus is one of my houseplants. After a flower opened yesterday, I placed it outdoors for the hummingbirds. As soon as... -
Lesser Yellowlegs on the left can easily be compared to the Greater Yellowlegs in the center.
