{"id":1116,"date":"2011-03-11T20:43:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2011-03-13T00:58:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T08:58:45","slug":"potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, it neither snowed nor rained, so I headed out. Apparently some birds also decided that it was a good day to explore the world. I saw many, but show only the four I photographed: a (red\u2013shafted) Northern Flicker (female); a Sharp\u2013shinned Hawk; a Gadwall (male);\u00a0and a (sub\u2013adult) Bald Eagle. The stories accompany each picture.<\/p>\n

The Northern Flicker is a fairly common local woodpecker. In the East, the undersides of the wing and tail feathers are bright yellow; in the West they are red\u2014or so the books tell us. Yet, it is not always easy to see. Here is a female Norther Flicker prominently showing off the red shafts on her tail and wings.
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Each spring I watch for Merlins and had mistakenly thought I had spotted one. But, Michael McMann has pointed out that this bird is actually a Sharp\u2013shinned Hawk. My first.\"\"<\/p>\n

I have never noticed a Gadwall before. But, a friend observed one along the Nelson waterfront, so I had to see it for myself. This one is a male.
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A grand drama was the interplay between a dozen Mallards and a (sub-adult) Bald Eagle. The Mallards were quietly dabbling when suddenly they took to the air. Who can blame them for not wanting to be sitting ducks when this predator started circling overhead? The Bald Eagle has not yet attained its adult plumage. By using the diagrams in an article by Mark A. McCollough<\/a>, it appears that this eagle is two\u2013and\u2013a\u2013half\u2013years old, so it would have hatched in the summer of 2008.
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