Birds of a Feather is back with our new blog, Birding and Bonding! Our previous objective remains the same. Our goal is to find all birds that live on Long Island year round. The only rule is that in order to add a bird to our list, we must see it when we are together. That's where the bonding comes in. Life can get so hectic that we sometimes fail to enjoy the more important things. This gives us a wonderful outlet to make sure we take the time.

Of course, Long Island has many migratory birds, as well. We certainly don't want to ignore them. We will blog about them as well. Armed with new cameras and renewed incentive, we look forward to getting back on the birding trail!

Monday, December 27, 2010

Blizzard of 2010!

There is nothing like a guilt-free day!  Can't get out of the house and don't want to!  It is in the 20's with a sustained wind in the 30 mph range, with gusts up to 50 mph. 

This has been a difficult month for Birds of a Feather.  It has been so cold and we just have not gotten together to do any birding.  Pretty much the extent of our Bonding has been playing Scrabble over wifi.  I promise we will do some birding as soon as we can.

In the meantime, so you don't think that I've blown off the blog, I am posting some pictures of my backyard during the blizzard.  Most pictures are not that great due to the high wind and blowing snow.  These were the visitors to my yard.

If any other feathered friends come to the yard, I'll add them to the post.  Until next time, which hopefully won't be too long....


Cardinal
 
Downy Woodpecker

Junco in coconut half


 


House Sparrow

Mourning Dove

Blue Jay


White-Throated Sparrow



European Starling


Song Sparrow
 
Red-Bellied Woodpecker

Black-capped Chickadee
 
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1 comment:

  1. tomDecember 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM

    now I know what you were doing while I was answering your text nice shots... guess I will have to put out some "feed" to get any friends to my house but I think I did that yesterday and no "birds" came... but the feed was gone??!!

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