Retirement Time.
Don't care if it is Daylight Savings or Standard Time. My bladder tells me it's time to get up. I eat when I'm hungry and go to bed when I'm sleepy.
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Bath time.
A Nashville warbler and a black capped chickadee in close proximity in our water feature. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, October 12, 2024. Poecile atricapillus Black-capped Chickadee. Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
Brown creeper.
While the creeper isn't rare in our area, they can be hard to find as they blend in very well. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, October 22, 2024. Certhia americana Brown Creepers burn an estimated 4–10 calories (technically, kilocalories) per day, a tiny fraction of a human’s daily intake of about 2,000 kilocalories. By eating a single spider, a creeper gains enough energy to climb nearly 200 feet vertically.
One at a time.
Starlings can be very pretty, one at a time. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, October 21, 2024. The problem comes when hundreds descend into your yard and take over all the feeders, carpet the lawn and monopolize the water feature. Sturnus vulgaris Starlings are great vocal mimics: individuals can learn the calls of up to 20 different species. Birds whose songs starlings often copy include the Eastern Wood-Pewee, Killdeer, meadowlarks, Northern Bobwhite, Wood Thrush, Red-tailed Hawk, American Robin, Northern Flicker, and many others.
Snack time,
White throated sparrow, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, October 14, 2024. Just snatched a flying insect and had a bite to eat. Zonotrichia albicollis
Sad eyes.
This is a feral cat that has started coming to our yard. With the feeders and water it is an attractive place for birds, and predators. I would like to trap it and take it to the humane society. We will see what happens. I think its eyes are sad. October 10, 2024, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario , Canada.
Black throated green warbler with its encontorage
Surrounded by 5 yellow-rumped warblers, one is out of the frame. The pond continues to be busy with multiple species of birds bathing at the same time. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, October 1, 2024. Setophaga virens Black-throated Green Warblers are not typically a backyard bird and don’t come to feeders, but yards with large mature trees may host them in migration.