Gallery Addition to 2023 Holiday Letter

Birds!

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Some of the beautiful birds that came to visit this year

(photos were taken through windows)

 

Blue Jays…too hard to pick just one photo! I do everything in excess!

 

 

  

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Cardinals…again, too  hard to choose just one!

 

 

 

 

Meet the better half…

  

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Sweet little chickadee

Praying chickadee

Chickadee braving a snowstorm

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Red-breasted nuthatch

White-breasted nuthatch

Snowbirds: nuthatch and downy woopecker

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goldfinches

  

Goldfinch with seed and goldfinch with halo

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Rose-breasted grosbeak

 

House finch

Indigo bunting

 

Orchard oriole…sorry about that empty jelly cup!

 

Mrs. Oriole sampling the grape jelly

Female and male orioles at the jelly cup

  

Baltimore oriole

 

 

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Red-headed woodpecker

 

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Red-bellied woodpecker (a rare view of that red belly)

 

 

 

 

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Eastern towhee (first sighting)

 

sparrow

Young starling

Fluffy tufted titmouse

Mourning dove

Wild turkeys

Cooper’s hawk: a first sighting for me (sitting on the birdfeeder post anyway) December 21st

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