The cold snap brought us our first Bewick's Wren of the year. Some years
we don't see a one. We have also had a Ruby-crowned Kinglet (male
flashing his bright red crown patch) frequenting the suet feeders -- it
is nice to see one holding relatively still.

My Facebook post without title case listed our regulars:
spotted towhee, dark-eyed juncos, house finches (rosy-red males, soft
brown females), black-capped chickadees, chestnut-backed chickadees, the
gorgeous varied thrushes, golden-crowned sparrow, song sparrow,
red-breasted nuthatches, flickers, downy woodpeckers, and of course the
house sparrows and starlings. Glaucous-winged gull and crow are fly-bys.

Our hedgerow of deciduous native shrubs has been a veritable bird
aquarium, especially for the snowberries on the bush and on the ground.
The Bewick's showed up at midday, gleaning through the snowberries,
twinberry, and gooseberry.

Oddly absent lately are the Hairy Woodpeckers. I am still hoping for a
Red-breasted Sapsucker; in past years they appear with the snow.

Good birding,

Kristi
in Anacortes
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at
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