My favorite picture taking birds are the woodpeckers. This yellow-bellied sapsucker bangs away on a dead tree trunk with a rapid and loud bang-bang-bang! They should call him a “yellow-bellied jack hammer!”
I hear him from a quarter-mile away and, after tromping through the underbrush, I get within 20 yards of him. He doesn’t care. He keeps pounding away and I get to take as many images as I want.
The downy woodpeckers are finally showing up around the far bog. In fact, the birds are slowly returning after our Maineiac spring of 2018. Last Wednesday was ice out on the big pond near our house. Tonight, the last snow will melt away from our back yard.
During our stroll on the Swamp Rabbit Trail in downtown Greenville, So. Carolina last week
We caught some ducks napping in mid-morning along the Swamp Rabbit Trail in Greenville, SC
Among the Canada geese, mallards, and goldeneye congregating along the shore last week was also a bufflehead duck.
A graceful pair of Canada geese cruise by looking for a place to land.
The Maine winter weather has been slow to leave and this has reduced our outdoor time. We were quite surprised to get sorta close to this common goldeneye duck species this week.
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