Even though the weather is still more or less sunny and warm in the Pacific Northwest, you can tell autumn is approaching by the fact that the Spotted Towhees are back. (Some are actually here year round but they all but disappear during in the summer months.) A member of the same family as many familiar sparrows and juncos, these scrappy orange and black birds can be quite aggressive in defending their personal space while picking through the seeds on the ground beneath birdfeeders.
Our friends Shirley and Wayne from Cottonwood, Arizona have sent us two more BirdCam photos, a Common Raven and a Collared Peccary (commonly called a Javelina) to add to our Avian and Non-Avian BirdCam Life Lists. They have truly set the bar for the number of BirdCam Life List pictures we have received from our very excited customers!
Shirley writes:
Ravens don't come in to feed at our feeders, so you can imagine my surprise as I looked through the photos this day
...as we were eating dinner tonight along came a Javelina, or Peccary as it is really called. The last time they came through in the day time there were about 20 in the herd. The little babies are red and so cute! But tonight there was only one... this one is a medium sized one.
One of the great things about the Wingscapes BirdCam being used by ornithologists in their field research projects is that they send us images of some amazing birds. Christine Riehl, a researcher from Princeton University who uses BirdCams in her field studies, sent this amazing photo from one of her BirdCams in Panama of a Greater Ani leaving its nest.
Needless to say that we'll be adding this one to the BirdCam Life List!
Pam from Malabar, Florida continues to send us great shots of birds and other wildlife that visit her yard.
Thanks Pam!
Pam writes:
I know you have the Mourning Dove on your life list, but thought this picture from the BirdCam was especially pretty. My husband Richard gave me the BirdCam for Christmas, and we let it take pictures every day. It’s always a treat to see what surprises we have when we get home from work.
Of course you have a picture of a cardinal, but I thought this picture from the BirdCam was especially pretty. Sometimes we put seed on an old stump and this picture captured the Northern Cardinal with the flowers behind it.
You may have noticed I do crop the pictures to get rid of unwanted background, but otherwise the picture is straight from the BirdCam.
(The Wingscapes Blog Team really likes the Common Ground-Dove picture you sent us as well, Pam.)
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