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| It was a gray, winter day, but some birds were out by the lake in East Lake Park lake in East Birmingham. This is a red-shouldered hawk (buteo lineatus) fishing on Jan. 24. We were able to get pretty close and watch it dive, catch and eat a small fish. We also saw a kingfisher, a yellow-crowed night heron, a bunch of ducks and geese, and one major goose fight… |
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| Photo by Glynn Wilson |
| A great blue heron winter fishing in East Lake Park… |
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Photo by Glynn Wilson |
| Finally, I got close enough to get a decent ID shot of one of the backyard’s “usual suspects,” one of two downy woodpeckers (picoides pubescens) hanging out every day year ’round. This is the male. You can just barely see the red patch on the back of his head. The female looks very similar, but with no red. |
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Photo by Glynn Wilson |
| With the coldest winter weather blowing in here in years and a low of below 20 degrees for two nights in a row, I worry about what I call the “usual suspects,” the birds making their year around home in the back yard. The water in the bird baths was frozen this morning, so I poured hot water in them to make sure these cute little buggers had water to drink in addition to the bird feed in the feeders to eat. This is may be a Carolina chickadee or a white-breasted nuthatch or a white-breasted Siberian tweety bird, for all the experts know, huddling on the sunny side of a tree. |
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| Here’s a hint of what’s to come from today’s journay on the water with Black Warrior Riverkeeper Nelson Brooke, along with lawyer and board member Mark Martin. It’s a close up of a great blue heron taking off. There were more great blues on this stretch of river than any place I’ve seen. |
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