A sleek black crow perched outdoors in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with glossy feathers shimmering slightly in natural light and a soft-focus green background.

This handsome fellow stopped by for a quick drink (it's been really hot here).

It was a race to get the shot through the door and my cat escaping 😂

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3/3: ….While here, the waxwings have been eating last year’s berries & rose hips, & leaving large piles of seed-filled droppings on the ground beneath their perches.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
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Image is a bird with metallic blue head and, um, shoulders, dark grey wings, white chin and underparts. The bird is on a piece of barbed wire, looking dramatically to its left against a light grey sky.

Tree swallow in the rain.

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A bald eagle (big brown bird with white head and yellow beak) sits in bare tree branches, looking down for a snack to fly by.

Hmm, wonder why it went so quiet in the yard? Ah, I see.

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Image is part of a screenshot from the Merlin bird identification app showing that it has detected a Swamp Sparrow, a Red Crossbill, a Northern Flicker and a Dark-eyed Junco.

Two days in a row now that Merlin has heard the Red Crossbill so I guess our visitors really have arrived. 🪶 #NSbirds

Two Canada Geese (very large light brown birds with long black necks and white chinstraps) stand in a brownish green field contemplating spring.

The birds shout all day and the spring peepers peep, the coyotes howl and various anonymous creatures screech-fight all night. It’s spring in the country and everybody’s worked up. 🪶 #NSbirds

A large brown bird with a white head and orange feet and open orange beak sits atop a broken-off birch tree against a background of red riverbank and winter-yellow grass.

No spring migrants in my yard yet, but all the regulars are out there yelling their heads off all day long, including this Bald Eagle. 🪶 #NSbirds

Northern Cardinal with an itch to scratch

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A bird with a dark blue-black head, bright yellow eye and green-brown back and tail feathers sits in bare branches with a bit of clinging snow.

One of our gang of unruly grackles.

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Northern Cardinal
Sackville Nova Scotia

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My #TenMinMerlin: No spring migrants here yet, just our regulars - blue jay, cardinal, white-breasted nuthatch, hairy woodpecker, mallard, pheasant, Northern shoveller, goldfinch, red-winged blackbird, song sparrow, crow, raven, grackle, starling, Canada goose, robin, mourning dove. 🪶 #NSbirds

Against a snowy background, a hawk (maybe a Cooper’s hawk, but I’m not sure) with dark brown wings and back and reddish-brown and white chest and leg feathers stands on the bloody remains of a light grey mourning dove.

Oh dear. I think we’re down one mourning dove.

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A brown hawk sits in the bare branches of a maple tree against a bright blue sky.

I’m trying to not overdo the hawk photos, but this one is just such a good poser.
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A hawk with a brown head, white belly and brown-streaked chest stares at the camera with yellow eyes.

I think I’ve been spotted.

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A Northern Flicker sits within a tangle of bare tree branches against a pale blue sky.

Taking shelter from the snow.

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A dark bird covered in light brown speckles sits near the end of a horse chestnut tree branch.

I find starlings harder to appreciate when there are five hundred of them on the lawn all yelling their heads off, but taken individually, they sure are beautiful. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Three mourning doves sit on a branch, their little white bums peeking out from under dark greyish-brown wings. The middle mourning dove has its head turned toward the camera.

I got caught admiring bird bums.

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A blue jay sits near the top of an oak tree with golden leaves against a bright blue sky.

Champion poser. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

A chickadee (small bird with a black cap, black beak, pale greyish underbelly and dark grey feet) sits on a cedar branch with its head tilted to keep an eye on me.

Peeping Tom alert: I was reading when I got the feeling I was being watched so I turned to look over my left shoulder and caught the culprit. (Please forgive the photo hastily snapped through a dirty window.) 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

A blue jay sits on a raspberry cane, looking back to the camera.

Looking for the last of the raspberries. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Image is a dark greyish bird with lots of white speckles all over its body. It is standing on a weatherbeaten wooden railing against a blurry green, orange and red background of leaves.

I’m not sure what this starling was holding in its beak, but it stood on the deck railing for quite a while, showing it off. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Three small drab yellow birds with black and white wing stripes sit on dried rudbeckia seed heads against a background of overgrown kale.

Watching the goldfinches chow down on seeds and feeling smug about being too lazy to keep a tidy garden. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

A charcoal-grey bird with white patches on its wings flies away from the camera against a blurry background of green trees.

Northern Mockingbird flies away in disgust after yelling at me for five full minutes for daring to stand on my deck. Cranky, but beautiful. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

A small, olive-coloured bird with black and white wing stripes hops off a branch at the very top of a dead spruce tree, against a greyish sky.

Hop. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Image is of two American Robins facing each other on a cream-coloured deck railing. Their beaks are open, squawking angrily.

The American Robin youngsters are getting on each other’s nerves. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Image is a Cedar Waxwing pushing off from the top of a dead spruce tree. Its brown and yellow belly is facing the camera and its wings are outstretched against a bright blue sky.

Cedar Waxwing giving me the belly. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Image is a small grey-feathered bird with a black-and-white head standing on a branch. His beak is open, giving him a scolding look.

A Black-capped Chickadee saying, ‘Back off, creep.’ 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Image is a small yellow bird sitting on a long, curving branch against a blurry green background of lawn.

An adorable Yellow Warbler singing a song for me from the wisteria. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

Image is a Northern Flicker, with a red patch on the back of his head, a black patch on his chest and another black patch across his cheek.

Northern Flicker in my birch tree showing off his marvellous moustache. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds

A tan and yellow cedar waxwing sits on the very end of a branch near the top of a dead tree.

This Cedar Waxwing was waiting for me to stop watching so he (she?) can get back to raiding my strawberry bed. 🪶 #birds #NSbirds