🕊️ • bu·sey·birds
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i’ve recently become obsessed with giving names to things and decided to take this afternoon to become familiar with the birds that i see so often and whose names i still don’t know.
so here we go:
all of the following birds are from busey woods, a small forest preserve in urbana, il.
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welcome
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a myrtle warbler, fond of wax-myrtle berries and insects
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another myrtle warbler
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a white breasted nuthatch, fond of moving head-first down tree trunks, storing nuts for incoming winters, and smearing insects outside the entrances to their nests
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moss, not bird
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a male downy woodpecker, the smallest species of woodpecker in north america
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a pair of female downy woodpeckers, distinguished by their lack of red caps
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a log, with moss & fungi
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a male eastern bluebird, fat, brightly colored, and looking for prey. normally highly social, eastern bluebirds become highly territorial in the spring for mating season
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a female eastern bluebird with highlighted wing feathers and a gray head
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another female eastern bluebird
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a plant
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a red bellied woodpecker, sporting a barb tipped and sticky tongue, searching for food in the bark
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a ruby crowned kinglet, constantly moving and nervous, capable of laying a clutch of eggs equivalent to her own body weight
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a robin, searching the dirt for worms
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a male red-winged blackbird, sporting its distinctive splotch and screaming its familiar song
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a tree with two birds in it; in my hand? four more birds
images were taken on a nikon d3400 with a 70-300mm kit lens and identified with merlin bird id. information from allaboutbirds.org and wikipedia.