Can you imagine any bird, let alone a Downy Woodpecker like this one, eating bird seed from your hand? Birds have been fed so often by hand at Kensington Metro Park in southeast Michigan that often all you need to do is stretch out your arm and birds will land on your hand. Over the… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Downy Woodpecker
On a cold, wintry day in Michigan, there aren’t a lot of birds that will catch your eye against the drab brown-gray landscape. Even when there is snow on the ground. But when you see a bird with a flash of blue, you can be almost certain it’s the Eastern Bluebird— one of the birds… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Eastern Bluebird on a Gray, Wintry Day
One of the most common winter birds you’ll find at feeders in southeast Michigan in the winter is the White-breasted Nuthatch, an acrobatic bird that defies gravity as it walks head down, spiraling a tree trunk. Or it perches perilously from a feeder as this White-breasted Nuthatch was doing at my feeder this weekend. It… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Gravity-defying White-breasted Nuthatch