365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Not A "Steller" Hair Day
Day 67: I figured as long as I was standing at the open window trying to capture that elusive little stinker Chickadee, I might as well make use of the time to snap some pictures of the usual crowd. It's been wet, and the poor Steller's Jays all look like drowned rats. "Y'know, I just can't keep my crest nice in this humidity!" Steller-fellers, Spotted Towhees, Juncoes and Song Sparrows make up the bulk of the visitors to my feeders right now, and that Chickadee keeps eluding me. He's bold enough to stay in the contorted filbert while I'm outside, mocking me with his "-dee-dee-dee," but as soon as I raise the camera, he's off like a shot.
Labels:
bad hair day,
Cyanocitta stelleri,
Steller's Jay,
yard
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