Bird Watching: Daily Bird Pics (and conversation) #454, 3 by pollengarden

pollengarden wrote:
Thank you Margaret! Your birds may have to carry us in the northern hemisphere through the winter. For me, your Bee-eaters are wonderfully exotic.
Unusually cold here - the temperature is supposed to get above freezing today for the first time in a week. My selection of birds is going to be limited through January.
1 & 2 is a Canyon Tohee that Resin was kind enough to ID for me. Local Audubon tells me that they aren't a feeder bird, and that it must have needed a little help in the extreme cold.
3 is a I-can-shriek-like-hawk Blue Jay. It scares the other birds away from the feeder, then scares itself being alone at the feeder.
4 my lonely white-winged dove. Nothing scares it away from its perch - it stands its ground against everything,