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Eastern Meadowlark

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A little bonus on the way to a birding location, we came across this Red-headed Woodpecker just off the edge of the road.

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Winter Wren
Typically skulky, but there were two calling back and forth on our recent walk. This one popped up and posed for a bit.

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Their Royal Roundness

Golden-crowned Kinglet

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That's quite a beakful!

Cedar Waxwing

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Pileated Woodpecker

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First #BloomScrolling post of the year.
Crocus came up a couple of weeks ago.

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The past two days were hovering around 80° F. Then today...snow.
Here's a shot from a couple of weeks ago when we still had snow everywhere.

Northern Cardinal

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Often overlooked and underappreciated, the humble House Finch.

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Swamp Sparrow in the chokeberry

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#SilentSunday

Eastern Comma shadow play

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Good morning from your friendly neighborhood Prairie Warbler!

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Kasey has staked an early claim to a coveted spot on the new furniture.

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Picked up a "lifer" for us early in the year.

Lapland Longspur trudging across the frozen tundra.... well, not exactly the tundra. The heavy snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic hung around for weeks and this bird and a Horned Lark were moving along the edge of the road where a small strip of grass was visible.

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet, trying out its best bat impression.

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Good news is I was able to go back to our favorite Snow Goose migration spot, bad news is the weather was crap. Cloudy, gray and damp. So, no great pictures, but I'll post a couple anyway.

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The weekend I was there, staff estimated 65,000 Snow Geese, 2200 Canada Geese and 1000 Tundra Swan.

A few weeks ago, we still had partial snow cover, but the birds were hanging around the exposed grassy areas. I came upon this Northern Mockingbird doing a wing-flash while foraging.

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#FootpathFriday
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Great Blue Heron taking in the view

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