Parade Of The Birds

Each day outside our kitchen window I get to see a show of visitors at the feeding block. Miss Downy is the first bird, she has quite an appetite for a miss. Her markings are so dramatic if you look at her back it is a white heart shape, and her real name is a Downy Headed Woodpecker... Miss Downy for short. I am not so bored as to name every bird that comes my way, but she is here daily and has earned a permanent resident name. The other birds I enjoy just as much, but they come in numbers too many to decipher individuality so they are just the gang. The last photo is of a new visitor rarely seen at the block. He is quite large in comparison to anyone else dining with us. He is beautiful when he opens his wings to fly off and flashes that salmon color he sports with pride. He is a Red Shafted Northern Flicker... and adds a great punch of color against the winter backdrop.