Fledglings and Zentangle Prompt
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Fledglings!
Our bird feeder was suddenly busy after 2 windy days when the birds tended to stay in the trees. And we had some special visitors. Two birds that are just learning their way around the feeder. The first was a downy woodpecker. The adult male came first and
Then a bumbling juvenile. It was noisy from the deck railing at first the tried the feeder but not where it was able to get any seed. The male came back to show it the technique again but the young one had already flown off to the sycamore and then back to the maple.
An adult white-breasted nuthatch came to the feeder and then flew below to get seed from the deck floor. It was followed by a scruffy looking bird with less distinct markings…a little clumsy getting around too. A fledgling nuthatch?
The other bird that came to the feeder that I hadn’t seen in a few days was a red-bellied woodpecker. Last summer we had at least one red-bellied woodpecker (in July) but this must have been mom getting a snack rather than training a fledgling.
I am pleased that I haven’t seen a fledgling cowbird coming to the feeder with a weary adult bird from another species.
Links to my previous “filling a day of social distance” posts here.
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