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Every woodpecker is the sweetest and the best*, but Lewis's give me a particular thrill!
*Includes sapsuckers. Flickers don't need my approval and don't have it.
#WildForWoodpeckers #CentralOR #BirdPhotography
(Both photos from June 2025)
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The struggle between a passion for accurate tagging of bird behavior in my photos and the desire not to embarrass myself if I forget to delete the tag 'poopin' before I upload the chickadee photo to #iNaturalist. 😬 #BirdPhotography #CentralOR
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Went outside briefly during a lull between thundershowers just now, and I saw a pair of mourning doves being pursued by an accipiter (sharp-shinned?) being dive-bombed by a hummingbird. A little animal drama between the meteorological ones!
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My family visit in Central Oregon wasn’t very birdy this time, but a Hairy Woodpecker came to bid me goodbye regardless!
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Anyone know if any universities in #CentralOR would like a dead rufous hummingbird? If its poor little windowstrike death (the homeowner is putting up more window stickers as a result) could help science more than just an inaturalist observation, that would be great. 😔
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My mom has been back to visit the #nestling Hairy #Woodpecker and his frazzled parents three times since I left. 6/12 and 6/14, the scamp was still demanding food. 6/15, our little beggar had flown!
In honor of this, I’m posting a photo of the little one from last week. Photo is from 6/10, 2 days after the one I’m replying to, but you can see some differences in plumage already.
Congratulations on fledging, little woodpecker! We love you.
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To clarify, those 10 nests are in the parking lot aspen grove. We also saw 3 Lewis’s Woodpecker nests and a Northern Flicker nest as we walked along the Tumalo Creek trail! #birding #oregon #centralOR
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We have found the western bluebirds’ nest, and a THIRD woodpecker nest (probably hairy, will double check photos later!) Still trying to track the Lewis’s to their nest! TEN nests total right now! #birding #oregon #centralOR
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Mom, tired: Ugh, let’s give up and go home for lunch.
We trudge.
Me, pointing: MOM MOM MOM
Western Meadowlark, flying and perching far off: Greetings!
Western Meadowlark, slightly closer: You were patient!
Western Meadowlark: I am sufficiently amused! Behold!We danced.
2/2
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Trying to remember to post my photos when not out and about!
This is my great treasure from yesterday: I realized that sometimes the #nestling Hairy #Woodpecker put its head out to meet the parent. Only once per feeding, and usually right when the parent landed, so my attempts took a lot of patience — from my mom as well as me!
I just love woodpeckers so much!
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My mom says, “You should post this one to your group!” Who am I to disagree?
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Mom and I spent 2 hours birding just in/around the Shevlin Park parking lot. Nest count: 1 sapsucker (red-naped/hybrid pair); 2 hairy woodpecker nests (I saw a baby head getting fed!!!), a violet-green swallow nest hole in the same tree as a mountain chickadee nest hole, a robin nest, and a house wren nest hole!
Edited: forgot to say northern flicker nest!
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Welp, I got an email saying this is an overexposed Olive-Sided Flycatcher. The email is from the same eBird volunteer who emailed me last month when a drag-king sapsucker deceived me as to her species/hybridization status.
There is nothing mean in either email, but I am so ashamed I’m considering never reporting to eBird in this county again. 🫣
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It’s difficult to say which is harder:
1. The multiple-open-references identification of the photos of yesterday’s Weird (but still substantially like every flycatcher) Flycatcher; 😰
Or 2. the writing and submission of one’s eBird report justifying one’s daring choice to identify the flycatcher at all, let alone assert (with no audio evidence!) that it is a locally RARE Willow Flycatcher. 😬
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Here are a couple of the dozen-ish Lewis’s Woodpeckers I saw once we got past the parking lot. 🤣 #Oregon #CentralOR #BirdPhotography
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I dunno, I really love this park, but do you think they could get some woodpeckers in? 🤣
(These are just the picidae that I got photos of *in the parking lot*.)
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Birds looking sideways at the world: 💙🤍💙
(Tree swallow, Deschutes National Forest, #Oregon, May 10)
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I hear it is #Wrensday, so here are some house wrens from last Friday! They were singing up a storm all along the margins of the controlled burn area and lazy braided creek we were visiting in #CentralOR.
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Ugh, I love Lewis’s Woodpeckers so much. Their glossy night-green wing feathers! Their red and white checked waistcoats! Their velvety scarlet little faces! Arrgh!
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As my time zone shuts the book on this #GlobalBigDay, I wanted to post a few early favorites from my photos. My mom and I walked around 3.5 miles today and counted 125 birds of 28 species.
Here are four of ‘em! Two kinds of nuthatch, a noisy corvid, and the absolute star of the day: this particular, sadly lovelorn Lewis’s Woodpecker. 💚❤️🌲:sapsucker:
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As my time zone shuts the book on this #GlobalBigDay, I wanted to post a few early favorites from my photos. My mom and I walked around 3.5 miles today and counted 125 birds of 28 species.
Here are four of ‘em! Two kinds of nuthatch, a noisy corvid, and the absolute star of the day: this particular, sadly lovelorn Lewis’s Woodpecker. 💚❤️🌲:sapsucker:
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As my time zone shuts the book on this #GlobalBigDay, I wanted to post a few early favorites from my photos. My mom and I walked around 3.5 miles today and counted 125 birds of 28 species.
Here are four of ‘em! Two kinds of nuthatch, a noisy corvid, and the absolute star of the day: this particular, sadly lovelorn Lewis’s Woodpecker. 💚❤️🌲:sapsucker:
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As my time zone shuts the book on this #GlobalBigDay, I wanted to post a few early favorites from my photos. My mom and I walked around 3.5 miles today and counted 125 birds of 28 species.
Here are four of ‘em! Two kinds of nuthatch, a noisy corvid, and the absolute star of the day: this particular, sadly lovelorn Lewis’s Woodpecker. 💚❤️🌲:sapsucker:
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I have a shocking number of photos to sort out from yesterday, especially those from the 45-odd minutes I spent in “spying on woodpecker and sapsucker” flow state, but I wanted to share this action shot!
I don’t know why the Western Bluebird decided his perch on the longest, highest branch on this snag tree was inferior to the robin’s lower, shorter perch, but it was not a great decision.
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Today I have seen a pair of downy woodpeckers, and the female working on her nest hole one tree over from a red-naped sapsucker DIY gent!
Well, maybe not a gent despite his landlordly behavior toward nuthatches. Would a gentleman have to do with his mate where I could see?! 😱 :sapsucker: :sapsucker:
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Mom insisted I take a bunch of photos of this Little Brown Jobber by the Deschutes River this evening, while I was uncharacteristically blasé and said, “are we sure it’s too small to be a female red-winged blackbird?”
The prancing little chap proved to be a Savannah Sparrow, which I should have recognized but which is a lifer for Mom! And unusual for the location! She earned this one! 🤗
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It is a little early for peak Picidae activity, but we scoped out several nest holes we have enjoyed watching in previous years at the National Forest, saw that sapsucker couple, and one Hairy Woodpecker and maybe a Downy too! (We heard it, but it was too far away to be sure of scale so the photos might be of the Hairy we had seen nearby.) “Mom,” I said, “I declare this a Woodpecker Heritage Site.”
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This is actually the third kestrel in two days, and I got a good long look at all of them! I feel extremely lucky. (Unlike the probable voles and newt in some of my other photos. 😬)
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The monkey’s-paw of the really good view of a silent #flycatcher. So now I can try to figure out which species it is! But now…I have to try to figure out which species it is. 🤦🏻♀️