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Winter Male Red-bellied Woodpecker

By Mia McPherson|December 22nd, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, Arkansas, close up, driftwood, feeder, garden, male, Melanerpes carolinus, peanut, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Sebastian County, suburban, winter, woodpecker, woodpeckers, yard|

I'm sharing three photos of a male Red-bellied Woodpecker that I took yesterday on the Winter Solstice, which also marks the first day of astronomical winter.

My Birding By Ear Affliction

By Mia McPherson|January 7th, 2023|Categories: American Crows, Barred Owls, Birds, Blue Jays, Florida, Hillsborough County, Lettuce Lake Regional Park, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Crow, autumn, Barred Owl, birding by ear, Blue Jay, branches, corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, crow, crows, Cyanocitta cristata, epiphytic flowering plant, fall, hardwood hammock, ice, jay, jays, marsh, owl, owls, peanut, perched, Spanish Moss, Strix varia, Tillandsia usneoides, tree, wetlands, winter|

My birding by ear affliction isn't that I can't hear birds; it is that I can't not hear them. Even when I am on the phone with my friends.