A Couple of Owls and Other Birds

Design - "Hoot"

Designer - Bent Creek

Fabric - 30 count WDW Putty linen

Fibers - GAST, WDW, & DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 30 October 2016

Completed - 14 November 2016

Most backyard birders would look at this photo and see only one kind of bird - Goldfinches.

There are, in fact, at least three kinds.  On the bottom left are aare a couple of Pine Siskins, with an American Goldfinch to right right of them.  On the bottom right the yellow bird is a female Lesser Goldfinch, with a male Lesser Goldfinch partially hidden on the right of the feeder.

Here's a better look at the bright yellow male Lesser Goldfinch.

I need all my fingers and toes and more to count all the Oregon Juncos.

For many birders in this area they are a sign on the changing season as they breed at higher elevations and return to the valley in the fall.

I have them all year, but in much larger numbers this time of year.

So now you know why this bird is called the Chestnut-backed Chickadee!

Isn't that a cute little fluff-ball?

Yep!

I'm in Nuthatch Heaven this autumn.  A couple of Red-breasted Nuthatches have been frequent visitors to my feeders front and back.

And even more unusually, I've spied a couple of White-breasted Nuthatches working away on a large Douglas fir tree and eating out of the feeder I have there.

They are very attractive with their white head and breast, black head and gray body.

Any bird that walks upside down is a cool bird!

And he knows it!