Photos, Paintings, Portraits & Prints by Cynthia Crawford
The birds at home were pretty hungry and came to our feeders. April Fools day dumped a foot of snow on us!
Evening Grosbeak-female
Evening Grosbeak-female
Evening Grosbeak-female
Evening Grosbeak-female
Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Junco singing
American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Dark-eyed Junco singing
Mourning Doves
Mourning Dove
Hairy Woodpecker
Spring is always an exciting time with the return of songbirds and migrants. Here are a few that I’ve seen in the past month. They are, in order:
Fox Sparrow, Eastern Bluebird, Bohemian Waxwings-from a flock of about 45, Black-capped Chickadee, Evening Grosbeak (female), Evening Grosbeak (male), Goldfinch male-(molting into new plumage), A pair of Hooded Mergansers, Hooded Mergansers in flight, Dark-eyed Junco, Belted kingfisher, Mourning Dove, Pine Siskin, Rusty Blackbird, Tree Swallow, Tree Swallows on a nest box, Tree Swallows fighting over the nest box, Vesper Sparrow (3 pictures) (this bird came very early in the season, in the snow), Wilson’s Snipe and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-just arrived, Killdeer and Green-winged Teal (female).
We have had a wonderful flock of Evening Grosbeaks at home in Vermont this summer. I think there have been two successful broods in some cases. The assortment of colors and degrees of maturity or molt is amazing. As I was taking these pictures yesterday, one immature bird landed on the porch rail, not more than a foot from my face. It gave me “the eye”, and went on to sip water drops and forage for tiny bits of—who knows what. Only a phone call interrupted our happy encounter.