I have been preparing my photo blind and bird feeders for another season of winter songbird photography and today I finally had a chance to go out and sit in the blind for a couple of hours to see what I might be able to capture. I was quite surprised to see this different looking chickadee land on one of my perches. It is not uncommon to have a great number of Black-capped Chickadees at my feeders throughout the day, but I have never seen one quite like this. Upon referring to my field guides I believe it may be a Boreal Chickadee.
During the course of last winter I had a lone, female red-bellied Woodpecker visiting my suet set-up and thought that this was most likely due to the warmer than usual winter we had last year. However, today I was pleased to she that she has returned and made a couple of lovely poses for me, which can be seen below.
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Andrew McLachlan 
Andrew, I love chickadees, that’s a great shot with a perfect size perch, nice pose and wonderful background 🙂
Much thanks Denise…greatly appreciated!
Beautiful!….Happy New Year,
Michael
Thanks Michael, Happy New Year to you also!
Some great images Andrew. All the best in the new year!
Thanks very much Kyle…look forward to meeting up soon now that we finally have some snow on the ground.
The first one looks a bit like a bird I get on my feeder every day, and it is the least shy bird I know, latin name: Poecile montanus.
Thanks Bente…often these little fellas will feed right out of your hands 🙂
Beautiful images, Andrew! How about posting an image of your perch and suet set up. It’s always neat to see set ups and get ideas and tips.
Thank you much…will do the perch set-up post soon!