Feathered Friends - This Week's Sightings

Here are a few sightings from this week.

Summer heat is great for the tree swallows.

They like to sit and pose nicely. I'm still hoping to get a shot of one with a bug in its mouth one day.

Here is a strange woodpecker I've never seen before.

I thought it might be a black backed woodpecker but maybe it is a juvenile of some other species...

Now for some duck yoga. Very balanced on the precarious rocks.

This one can stand one footed on a floating log.

Finally got a decent shot of a blue jay. They are quite common here but are bad at sitting for a shot.

As usual there are lots of sparrows sitting on the power lines everywhere. They have exploded in number this year because there are so many cicadas to eat.

Starlings are quite numerous too. Loads of them can be seen over the prairies. This batch wasn't quite forming a murmur, that's another shot I hope to catch one day.

That's all for now, thank for looking :-)