oh that's sad! there were many of the tufteds here- I was all in love and calling them Tufty:) so glad I got that first photo- I love looking at it now still. I kept my hand quite close to my face actually so I could get a good gaze at them as they ate so I got some great eyecontact and closeup views just with my eyes...but each one felt so brief..thank goodness for cameras.
I was very surprised when that little woodpecker landed in my hand! it seemed he was watching me feed the others for a long time and finally decided I was harmless enough? there was also another bird that I wish I had caught a photo of...because I'm not sure what it was...had a long thin beak and longer talons that hurt a little, brown and white and grey I think...somewhat stripey(?) and did not seem like one that would normally eat seeds at all- I think they are all just curious when they see the others doing it safely for a long while. ?
yep that's our boy! makes sense. now that I'm looking at more pics.I think the picture in my book before just Did Not look like him...but they vary. I remember his beak like this:http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellaretriever/2125229720/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellaretriever/2125229720/)
It could have been a white-breasted nuthatch, too. The red-breasted is smaller (4-1/2") than a chickadee (5-1/4"), while a white-breasted is a distinctly larger (5-3/4").
yes I think it's the white-breasted...I was probably just remembering wrong about there being any brown...the one in the link I put is pretty much what I now remember. and it was larger than a chickadee.and it definitely was on the trees upside down at times.:)
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Date: 2008-11-07 11:20 pm (UTC)I was very surprised when that little woodpecker landed in my hand! it seemed he was watching me feed the others for a long time and finally decided I was harmless enough?
there was also another bird that I wish I had caught a photo of...because I'm not sure what it was...had a long thin beak and longer talons that hurt a little, brown and white and grey I think...somewhat stripey(?) and did not seem like one that would normally eat seeds at all- I think they are all just curious when they see the others doing it safely for a long while. ?
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Date: 2008-11-08 12:19 am (UTC)They hang out with chickadees and are nearly as unwary, but not as shy as woodpeckers.
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