Through the Window: February 2012 Birds and Others

American Goldfinch Male (photo by Anna Marie Gavin, Intern, 2011). The ones seen through the winter are still a deep olive, not yet yellowgold...

The goldfinch plumage is getting crisper, but is not yet gold… here’s the February list of birds and others seen through our windows.

• Blue Jay
• Black-capped chickadee
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Downy Woodpecker
• American Goldfinch
• Northern Cardinal
• Dark-eyed Junco (a.k.a. Snowbird)
• American Crow
• Wild Turkey
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Tufted Titmouse
• Ruffed Grouse
• Mourning Dove
• Purple Finch
• American Robin
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Evening Grosbeak
• Gray Squirrel (one was on the feeder platform! So we re-greased the pole)
• Red Squirrel

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