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Clockwise:
A Blue Jay, a female Cardinal, and the ubiquitous Mr. Crow. The
female cardinal
often plays second fiddle to the gaudy male, but she is a beautiful
bird. She is also easier to photograph, as she is less nervous.
Here she has a sunflower seed in her beak. |
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Above and
right:
Two views of a Flicker. He is a type of woodpecker,
but he would just as soon eat sunflower seeds off the ground or
from a feeder as peck at the bark
of trees
for
insects. I had earlier misidentified this fellow as
a yellow-bellied woodpecker. |
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Above and
right:
the male cardinal, who refused to pose against the snow. |
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It’s a bird, it’s
a... whoops! This photo was taken on December 5, 2002, during the
first snow of the season in Gambrills, Maryland. |
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