H.J. Ruiz – Avian101 – Page 642 – "My Backyard Visitors" – All about birds

Gold Rush

When I see American Goldfinch birds coming to my backyard it makes me feel good. It took them like two years before they came to my backyard feeders. I could always see them in other houses and fields but never in my backyard.

Now they are frequent visitors! Let me tell you I was very surprised to see them here during Winter! Obviously they did not migrate.

These birds are gorgeous when they display their breeding plumage (Spring, Summer) Now is not a good time for breeding, the nestlings would not survive low temperatures.

I can’t wait to have the real nice weather and see all birds flying around showing off their best plumages and looking for their potential mates. Then my backyard gets busy with bird traffic.

I know… be patient and do your best until then!

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Not Cool…It’s Cold!

After having a glorious day on Saturday we are plunging into the low temperatures again. It is 2:00pm in the afternoon and the temperature reads 34ºF (1º C) as the High for the day. The wind chill makes it feel like 28ºF. The forecast calls for decreasing temperatures for the rest of the week (Below 0º F). As you can see it’s not a pretty picture! Not cool!

The positive thing we have now id that at least we have a bright day instead of the dark and gray days.

I wasn’t deterred by the weather and proceeded to shoot pictures which some of them will be displayed on this post. As always they were shot at different times of the day. Enjoy!

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