Blue bird

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A blasting jeer comes from a blue jay in the big oak. Smaller birds scatter, except for a downy woodpecker, who freezes motionless on a tree trunk. A sharp-shinned hawk glides silently into my yard. It settles on a branch, watching for some small bird it can seize. It might have caught one, except that the blue jay ratted it out. The blue jay may only have meant to warn other jays, but all the other birds understood perfectly. The feeders are suddenly bare, and the downy woodpecker that did…

Our eighth and final BirdSpotter category was a mixing pot of all sorts of birds. "Potpourri" was created to be a category that anyone could enter. Congratulations to our BirdSpotter People’s Choice winner for Category 8, Mary Santangelo of Effingham, IL! Mary's expert timing, and fast shutter speed, helped her get this fantastic shot of an Eastern Bluebird's wings outstretched.

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Mountain Bluebird males are a perfect cerulean blue, vivid against the sagebrush-steppe landscape where they often nest. These were photographed at Whiskey Dick Mountain in central Washington State…

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