The Bird Feeder

Had a great blue heron at the small pond, much more wary than the green heron

saw bald eagle near the queensbury water treatment plant along the hudson river while on corinth rd.later saw northern harrier hunting over fresh cut hayfield,and kestral on a wire

What kind of woodpecker?

If it is bigger (like the size of a blue jay), likely a Hairy. If smaller, then a Downy. Very similar.

man that pecker looks huge!  Big like a pileated wood pecker http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/pileated_woodpecker/id

but the markings are Hairy wood pecker...  man that pic makes it look very big.

how big in real life?  

We think it was about ten inches.

True story. We were hiking and I got ahead.  I sat and thought about the this thread and the last woodpecker. But all was quiet.

I looked straight ahead and noticed what LOOKED a pecker just hangin on a big dead tree.

He's just a bit left of center in this low res pic:

 

Eventually he did some pecking, flew off and pecked some more.

So cool to find a pecker without a peck.

Have no idea what this is. Seemed like a bird that went cheep cheep:

sibleys is a wonderful bird book very helpful in identifying birds .not a field book

Very nearly hit a male ring necked pheasant.it is the second one I've seen in the last 2 weeks

Awesome!

Wild turkeys all over the place the last couple weeks!  

White thoarted sparrow is back down from the higher elevations!  Saw one yesterday!

Mr. Eagle.......pix taken a couple days ago at a local golf course...what a bird

Been hearing a bird screech in the evening by the creek the last few weeks...  

Not sure what it is...  But I'm almost convinced it's an owl..   Maybe a a Horned Owl...
I've gone out to look for it - but when I get close it flies away - and it's big from the sound of the wings flapping..

owls hoot!  hoot hoot!  

they screech too...

Barred Owl!  

have seen snow geese twice recently . sat huge flock, 500?, flying over glens falls.  wed large flock feeding in field south of moreau st park

Here's another Barred Owl.  Saw him out of the corner of my eye while I was messing around on the xc skis at home last Sunday afternoon (the 27th, pre-thaw).  We hear owls all the time at home, but I've only actually seen a handful.  This guy was about 40' up a white pine.  I couldn't see him nearly as well as the camera saw him.

grackles and redwinged blackbird today, never thought they were very smart birds