Backyard birds this week.

And Life and Nature just go along, paying no attention to us. First sighting in the yard this year. As usual, I heard him before I saw him. Steller’s Jay Our Juncos stay all year round, and they love our seed mix, which contains some hot pepper now. https://videopress.com/v/vIC6azQe?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true As usual, our red-breasted nuthatch comes …

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That flicker really wanted the hot-pepper suet!

Get the contortions this bird had to go through to eat our fine hot-pepper suet! The big suet feeder with the tail-rest holds ordinary suet, but our flicker went for the good stuff. https://videopress.com/v/L3384TIW?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Contortions! I buy the suet at our local Wild Birds Unlimited store, and we sure go through a lot of it. …

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