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Songbirds
Flights of Fancy
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 Raptors
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Red-shouldered Hawk
Debra Laudermilch, Barboursville, Virginia |
Cooper's Hawk
Sebastian Summer, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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Barred Owl
Donna Lyon, Antrim, New Hampshire |
| Great Gray Owls were on the move last winter, dropping further south than usual. John Crawford wrote about the owl above left, which visited his feeder area in Newmarket, Ontario, "It arrived in our FeederWatch area at about 8:00 a.m. in the morning, and left at about 2:00 p.m. Except for turning around once it never moved from its spot, about 15 feet from our feeders. It ignored the birds and they ignored it. The owl would occasionally watch the squirrels as they ran around under the feeders." |
Comparing flicker subspecies, and a sapsucker
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Northern Flicker, Red-shafted race
Caroline Hancock, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
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Northern Flicker, Yellow-shafted race
Edward Fletcher, Pennington, New Jersey |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Debra Laudermilch, Barboursville, Virginia |
Game birds
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California Quail
Barbara Pursell, Spokane, Washington |
Ruffed Grouse
Kathy Marie Gaider, Dauphin, Manitoba
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Squirrels
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Eileen Cantella, Glenshaw, Pennsylvania |
Helen Rizi, Highland Heights, Ohio |
Bobcat
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| Herman Paulk of San Bernardino, California, counted the squares on his fence to estimate that the bobcat that visited his yard was about 21” high and 37” long from the tip of its nose to the stub of its tail. |
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