Sylvia Wright on Nostr: The birds were pretty quiet today on our women's birding group walk at Empire Mine ...

The birds were pretty quiet today on our women's birding group walk at Empire Mine State Park, when it was 37 F. at the outset. I like the way the Common Raven pic turned out, all gritty. It's not usual for this pigeon sp. to fly solo, but as we watched, admiring its crazy yellow feet, another came along. I found the White-breasted Nuthatch (facing down-tree) and the Nuttall's Woodpecker (hanging horizontally) in a busy little thicket just outside the park. It was warmer then, and bugs were busy. I watched the Nuthatch catch a shield-shaped bug (stink bug maybe), and then either cache it in the bark, or hold it against the bark to eat it; couldn't tell.
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