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A brown creeper (Contributed)
Heavy snow cover, the kind blanketing our region right now, presents an obvious problem for many birds. From songbirds that forage on the ground to raptors unable to reach rodents beneath the frosty blanket, heavy snow cover deprives them of food.
Among the least affected are birds that find food on vertical surfaces. Birds like woodpeckers and nuthatches can find food and not just seeds and fruits, but animal matter on the trunks and branches of trees,
Woodpeckers hammer their way into the bore holes of insects, while nuthatches probe and sometimes pound a bit themselves to get at dormant insects, their larvae and their eggs.
A marsh wren (Contributed)
The stop was an afterthought. It ended up being one of my favorite birding moments among my many recent ones. I was returning home from doing a Connecticut Bird Atlas…
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