Here are a few sightings in the prairie for this #featheredfriday
This particular prairie is great for spotting yellow warblers. I was only able to barely catch this one shot before it flew off into the leaves. All the rest of my shots show little yellow patches between leaves that barely look like a bird.
A young blue jay was savagely killing something in a tree.
It seems to have found a large caterpillar.
Sadly my best shot of the worm came out unfocused. So no identification on its lunch for now...
Speaking of bird lunches, this poor fritillary is all beat up. Usually storm or constant pestering by birds causes their wings to get like this.
I suspect this Eastern Kingbird might be to blame for the fritillary wings.
As usual there are plenty of sparrows in the prairie. They are having a great time eating all the blackberries everywhere.
The song sparrows are belting out their complex calls. Sparrows are tough to get shots of in the prairie as they are usually buried in a bunch of sticks.
Someone keeps gluing bluebirds to the sides of trees around here...
I saw a nice red headed woodpecker but unfortunately this guy was in the middle of a swamp on a dead tree. I still have yet to get a nice close-up shot of one of these guys. Might need to bring galoshes next time. But I'm sure by the time I got close enough to this guy in the swamp it would just fly off to another swamp.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)