Northern Flicker

As the weather warmed slightly in January, we lost the snow and four or more Northern Flickers started competing for food in the garden. Here a male partakes at one of our feeders, bright red cheeks, whereas the females had no such markings.


Where : Creekside Crescent, Gibsons
When : January 19th, 2009

Varied Thrush

This is a varied Thrush, we had a pair of them, male and female, feeding in the back yard after quite a snowfall. In the following weeks we had about seven or eight of them, running around the yard, flipping leaves to find insects and partaking of our bird feeders.


Where : Creekside Crescent, Gibsons
When : 5th January, 2009