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March 17, 2025 Northern Flickers are big, showy, loud woodpeckers. There are red and yellow-shafted variants. As you can readily see the ones who call the park home have bright yellow feather shafts. Today I spotted this pair engaging in mating displays, fanning tails and raising their red crests. About
March 12, 2025 Spring whispers before it shouts. Within the past few days I've spotted some turtles basking, and my first Tree Swallow of this spring. About iNaturalist About Anson B. Nixon Park About cagksq
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Six species of woodpecker call Anson B. Nixon Park home; Downy, Hairy, Red-bellied, Pileated, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and the Northern Flicker. They've begun staking out territories and calling mates by rhythmic drumming heard all through the spring. This drumming functions like the songs of other birds and is different
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February 28, 2025 Feathers and tracks often go unnoticed, but the closer you look the more you'll see. Although American minks have been spotted in our area it's not surprising that I have yet to see one, they are pretty stealthy. Here's a look
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February 25, 2025 Scenes that caught my eye.
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February 25, 2025 I've found it difficult to get a good clear picture of a Chickadee. In the woods they are fast and cautious, but they hold still longer at the bird feeder. Figuring out if I have a picture of a Black-capped or Carolina Chickadee is just
21 February, 2025 The days have been lengthening since the winter solstice 62 days ago. In 28 days we'll reach the vernal equinox when the daylight and nighttime hours are equal, and then on to the longest day of the year at the summer solstice on June 20th.
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February 20, 2025 This afternoon at Anson B. Nixon Park the snow was flying, until it wasn't. A day of dramatic skies, bursts of snow and a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers. Pileated Woodpeckers will excavate a number of cavities in trees throughout the year. One they will use
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February 19 , 2025 The sun was variable, the temperature cold, the wind was rather mild for the past few days. A flock of robins were hard a work picking through the leaf litter in this season of the hunger moon. The days are short and what food the summer left
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A bright, cold mid-February day. I heard more than I got decent pictures of. About iNaturalist About Anson B. Nixon Park About cagksq
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You've likely seen the work of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker whether you know it or not. Sapsuckers make wells in trees to access sap. These wells form neat lines. Sometimes, many old wells on a tree can look like a natural pattern in the bark. Look at some local