Monday, October 22, 2007

Many flocks of geese, mostly Canada geese




I was outside for a while in the yard and there were flocks and flocks of geese flying over. There was a lot of honking so most must have been Canada geese.

The bird feeder is busy most of the time. There was one period this morning when the feeder had about six pine siskins at once (photo). There were also quite a few red breasted nuthatches and a few chickadees. House sparrows are still plentiful and there is the odd purple finch.

On the ground around the trees slate coloured juncos are still common, not having moved further south yet. It has not been all that cold so I suppose birds including the geese may be around for a while yet.

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