In many Asian cultures, Friday (4/4/14) was one of the three unluckiest days of the year due to the proliferation of the number 4. Coming up next will be 4/14/14 and 4/24/14. Although everyone else in my house is Asian, their bad luck did not rub off onto me as I made some good catches at the fish hatchery.
A red-breasted sapsucker was tapping away on a tree by Willow Creek. There may have been a second sapsucker in the tree as well, but I was not fast enough to photograph it.
At least two golden-crowned kinglets were busy going their non-stop kinglet thing by the creek. Both of our local kinglet species are my nemesis birds.
The kinglet's orange crown is barely visible in these two photos. A perfect kinglet shot would show the orange crown quite vividly. Like its cousin the ruby-crowned kinglet, the golden-crowned only raises its crown when it is agitated, usually by the presence of a rival kinglet.
A red-breasted sapsucker was tapping away on a tree by Willow Creek. There may have been a second sapsucker in the tree as well, but I was not fast enough to photograph it.
At least two golden-crowned kinglets were busy going their non-stop kinglet thing by the creek. Both of our local kinglet species are my nemesis birds.
The kinglet's orange crown is barely visible in these two photos. A perfect kinglet shot would show the orange crown quite vividly. Like its cousin the ruby-crowned kinglet, the golden-crowned only raises its crown when it is agitated, usually by the presence of a rival kinglet.
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