Birds & Gardens at Slough View Acres
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Flamingos aren't native here!
Budding sunflower
Leaf lettuce
Tonight's supper
Front yard
Butterfly house
Flowers
Garden mid-summer, 2009
Celery
Green pepper - one the rabbit did NOT get!
My garden utility vehicle
Purple and yellow beans
Accidental pumpkins - grown from bird seed left to sprout
Finches love the thistle feed
Male & female gold finch
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Mourning doves
Not so happy...
Indigo bunting
Common grackle
Wild turkey
Hummingbird takes a rest
Hummingbord feeds
Birds flocking in the fall
Sparrows
Hairy woodpecker
Male cardinal and sparrows
Dark-eyed junco
Female cardinal
Sunrise over Olin
Moonset over Morley
Not in the bird book!
Scot and I have identified over 50
different bird species that also make
their home with us at
Slough View
Acres
. Included in the list are:

Red-winged blackbird,
Eastern bluebird,
Indigo bunting,
Northern cardinal,

Grey catbird,

Black-capped chickadee,
Brown-headed cowbird,
American crow,
Mourning dove,
Bald eagle,
House finch,

Northern flicker,

American goldfinch,
Common grackle,
Rose-breasted grosbeak,
Red-tailed hawk,
Sharp-shinned hawk,
Ruby-throated hummingbird,
Blue jay,
Dark-eyed junco,
Eastern kingbird,
White-breasted nuthatch
,
Baltimore oriole,
Barred owl,
Great Horned owl,

Ring-necked pheasant,
American robin,
American tree sparrow,
Chipping sparrow,
Eurasian tree sparrow,
House sparrow,
White-crowned sparrow,
European starling,
Barn swallow,
Tree swallow,

Brown thrasher,

Wild turkey,
Turkey vulture,

Yellow-rumped warbler (a.k.a butter
butts),
Downy woodpecker,

Hairy woodpecker,
Red-bellied woodpecker,
Red-headed woodpecker, and
House wren.

At
Muskrat Slough, we have seen
awesome
birds including:

American coot,
Sandhill crane,
Wood duck,
Canada goose,
Mallard duck,
Hooded merganser,
American white pelican,
Pied-billed grebe,
Northern shoveler, and
Trumpeter swan.