Daily Visitors at the Aerie

With the icy weather at the Aerie today we had quite a few visitors to the feeders. I’ve already mentioned the Evening Grosbeaks. (Those shy devils wouldn’t come near the feeders while I was outside with the camera and so I missed their feeding frenzies.)

But we also had numerous Black-Capped Chickadees:





And a small flock of Common Redpolls:





As well as several Downy Woodpeckers:



Plus the usual assortment of Cardinals, Mourning Doves, Dark-eyed Juncos, White-breasted Nuthatches and Red-breasted Nuthatches. We even had a Red-tailed Hawk fly passed the window as we ate lunch. (Yesterday it was a Sharp-shinned Hawk that spooked all the little birds and, having missed on its first swing through the feeding area, it stayed to see if it could pick off any incautious little bird that might have let hunger push it back to the feeders.)