Kurt Kuehn, who lives in Duluth’s Lester Park neighborhood, caught some marvelous closeup shots of birds on this beautiful early-spring day.
Let’s start with some redpolls:
And, finally, a redpoll taking a nap …
What better way to spend part of a warm day than a nap in the sun? Especially when you’ll be heading up to the Arctic Circle soon.
But wait, there’s more!
A chickadee:
And a nuthatch:
I think it’s a red-breasted nuthatch, but honestly, I’ve never seen one this close.
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Last year a Red-breasted Nuthatch was sitting on our deck stunned so I was able to get a few closeup pictures, but other than that time the RB Nuthatch is scarce at my feeder.
I used to get as many red-breasted nuthatches as white-breasted, but not recently.
The Robins are back here in Cloquet on Tuesday morning
They’ve been seen in Duluth, but not by me.
Love the photos. We have had for the past two days – flocks of robins — 30 to 40 AND and still have our flock of redpolls — 50-75. I cannot remember having those two birds at the same time. Also, caught a glimpse of a bluebird (I don’t think I was hallucinating) yesterday as well.
Amazing. I’m down to about a dozen redpolls, zero robins, zero bluebirds.
Spring robins arrived in Proctor late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Also saw several hawks near I35 in West Duluth on Wednesday.
The White-breasted are rare out here. Dozens of Reds. Just walk up and down Lester River. Robins 0n the 13th-14th. Chipping Sparrow 14th.