Monday January 28, 2013

Three Birds

In Three Minutes

I am always pleased when I go to the kitchen window and see a bird that I don’t see every day.

I see Downy woodpeckers fairly often, but not this one, its larger twin the Hairy woodpecker.

I walked away from the window to check the pictures I had taken and when I went back – a few seconds later – I thought my eyes were deceiving me.

I was surprised that a red-bellied woodpecker had so quickly taken its place.

I told our granddaughter Elizabeth about the two birds then went back to the window.

A new, more familiar bird, a dark-eyed junco, had taken the woodpecker’s place.

I took these eight pictures in just under three minutes.