A Song in My Heart

                                                             Red-shouldered Hawk

                                                               Pied-billed Grebes

                                                                   Least Sandpipers

                                                           Female Downy Woodpecker

                                                   
                                                  Male Northern Flicker(Yellow-shafted)

                                                                        Ditto

                                                             Yellow-rumped Warbler


39-54 degrees F/21 degree windchill to constant in one hour/15-24 mph S winds/partly cloudy

Most of these photos were obtained today, as the rest of the week's windchills were hard to cope
with, plus the cloudy cover was very dense.

Today made up for the week's misery, as I saw several instances of mating behavior in the woodpecker clan.  Before my very eyes, The yellow-shafted male and a Red-shafted female
Northern Flicker were doing a mating ritual.  The male was not bothered by my presence in the
least, as you can see from these photos.  The Red-shafted female was a little skittish, but like
anything else, once she gets more used to me, she'll not worry as much.

Many songbirds were prevalent today, including the Harris's Sparrow, Slate-colored Juncos, Yellow-
rumped Warblers, and the Carolina Chickadee.  The Red-tailed Hawk was at the Northern Reaches,
as was the Hermit Thrush, and large numbers of American Robins.