Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

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Bill Anderson

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My son refilled the hanging suet feeder, which drew many birds Wednesday afternoon (7-15-2020).

Red-breasted nuthatch

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Chestnut-backed chickadees

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Dark-eyed juncos

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Bill Anderson

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While I did not set up all my equipment Thursday (7-16-2020) on the back deck , I did manage some grab shots with the 7DII + 100-400L II telephoto zoom of a red-breasted nuthatch at the suet feeder hanging on the back shed.

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Bill Anderson

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I ran out of suet, therefore the suet feeders remained empty for quite some time until the bird food store re-opened. After my son filled the feeders, they become a magnet for various birds.

Nuthatches and a flock of bushits flocked to the feeder Tuesday (7-21-2020) morning. One nuthatch held out against the swarm of bushtits.

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The bushtits created interesting shadows on my shed.

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My neighbor's cat did not seem to bother the birds.

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Bill Anderson

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Wednesday (7-22-2020) started out overcast, which made for good lighting but high ISO settings. I no sooner got out on the back deck when my son pointed out a pileated woodpecker on the nearest tree. It spent some time at the suet feeder, then flew to one of my Doug firs. .

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From there it flew to my neighbors where it hunted for insects in the back yard.

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Bill Anderson

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More hunting.

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After a bit it flew south towards Pine Ridge Park.

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I thought I was finished seeing it for the day, but it made one last appearance on a telephone pole about two blocks west of me.

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Bill Anderson

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The hIghlight of the day was a rufous hummingbird in my neighbor's flower bed. Up until now I had never seen a rufous anywhere in Edmonds other than at Pt. Edwards around the condos.

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Not good shots, but they show the distinctive tail of the rufous.

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A juvie Anna's showed up as well.

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The woodpecker parade was not over as a pair of northern flickers made an appearance.

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The pale red chevron on the back of the male's neck is barely visible, but it shows that it is a red-shafted/yellow-shafted intergrade bird. I have photographed many of them in Edmonds.

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Bill Anderson

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The bushtits continue to come to the suet feeders. I initially thought it was a flock, but I now think it might be the fledglings of the two adults I photographed earlier. if you study the photos closely, you can see an adult feeding one of the other birds.

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Same story at the ground feeder.

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Bill Anderson

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Thursday morning (7-23-2020) shots with 1DxII + 100-400L II telephoto zoom.

The flickers were quite active in the backyard this morning. They are quite skittish and I could only get a grab shot of a male at the ground suet feeder. I need to pull some of the grass in front of the feeder.

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A brown creeper was climbing up one of the Doug firs.

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Bill Anderson

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The rufous hummingbird continues to hang around my neighbor's flower bed. I am finding it harder to photograph than an Anna's.

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I believe this is a juvie as it does not have a red spot on its throat like a mature female.

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I saw another hummer chase the rufous. I wonder if it was the juvie Anna's I photographed yesterday.
 
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Terry O

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Wow - great variety, Bill. Exciting pileated sequence! Nice to see the Rufous hummers too. I also think they are juvies. At least one looks like a male.
 

Bill Anderson

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From the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
 

Bill Anderson

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Hummer action continued Thursday afternoon as two chased each other around our backyards. I thought both were rufous, but the one on the left looks like a rufous while the one on the right looks like an Anna's in the only photo I got of the two of them together. I call it a Sasquatch shot, which is one step lower in quality than an ID shot.

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Rufous.

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Bill Anderson

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The Anna's perched on parts of the plants while feeding on the blossoms. I have never seen a hummer do this. It certainly saves a lot of energy, akin to shutting off your car's engine while filling up at the gas pump.

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Bill Anderson

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I tried to take a sequence of birds coming and going from the suet feeder. To do so, I shot handheld at 1/1000 @ f/16 with the 1DxII + 100-400L II telephoto zoom in order to both freeze the action and increase the depth of field.

The best sequence I got was of a red-breasted nuthatch warding off a chestnut-backed chickadee that was trying to land on the feeder. The chickadee is approaching the feeder in the lower right corner.

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Scram! I was here first!

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The chickadee decides not to stay and argue.

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