Category: Birds

Loons with Winter Plumage

We were able to go out in the pontoon boat today. It’s been a wonderful October – lots of rain, but the temperature has been warm for this time of year. We saw several loons. The following pictures were taken on Pine Lake. This is an adult loon with its winter plumage. Sometimes it’s hard […]

Some Birds from the Summer

We’ve seen a couple of birds we don’t usually see. I wasn’t able to get many pictures of each, so thought I would put each of them on here. This is a juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker. It is still brownish, and doesn’t have the red that you see on the adult sapsuckers. I’ve seen the adults […]

Chipping Sparrow

It’s been hard to get a picture of the chipping sparrow because they are hardly still. The only time I saw them still was in the bird feeder, and occasionally in the trees where it is harder to get a clear picture. They are a common sparrow to have around, according to the information I […]

Trumpeter Swans

We had four trumpeter swans on our lake this week. I was only able to get pictures of three of them as the other one was too far across the lake. They are beautiful birds to watch. None of them looked like they had tags on them. They may have had leg bands on them, […]

Dark-Eyed Juncos

We’ve been blessed with a flock of dark-eyed juncos in our backyard for the last week or so. They are getting more comfortable with the noises of us moving around and are coming to the window feeder more often. Usually they would just feed off of the ground and not come close to the house. […]