Hairy Woodpecker?
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Birds & Birding
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chadnibal
That is though we've had downy's friquently, I have never really had hairy woodpeckers, I think, until this week. There's a pair hanging out, obviously a couple as they keep within a foot of each other much of the time. This tightly morning one spent time at the black oil sunflower feeder (mostly making a mess). It then flew over to its mate, on the back of an atrnique-hair-come-gardsen-ornament
re:Signs of Winter...
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Birds & Birding
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matrixise
First, yesterday we woke up to an inch of snow on the ground & blowing snow conditions. Then today, we wake up & it is -5°C with the first hard frost of the season. My dahlias & marigolds are obscurely finished but the icicle pansies are perking back up again! Keeping all the same

Another sign of winter? About 100 juncos!! They've been showing up more & more every day for th