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| White throated Sparrows - abundant and ubiquitous |
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| Tufted Titmouse - another common garden stalwart |
After arriving back from Israel, a couple of day's fieldwork and catching up followed before the next and last trip of the year - a fortnight in Massachusetts with the American family. Although we try and make it over there annually, before this year we'd never made it back over the festive period, and so it was a long overdue, family-focused fortnight, and it was as special as we'd hoped. Birding was confined to a couple of brief sessions in the snow with brother Ned and regular, bone-chilling forays into the snowy garden (the latter being the source of most of these photos), but still, there's always stuff to enjoy....
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| Freedom isn't free |
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| Sharp-shinned Hawk eyeing up a Junco brunch |
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker proving there's juicy morsels in the bark even in minus fifteen temperatures |
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch - inkeeping with their various congeners, they're as characterful, noisy and entertaining as you'd expect |
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| Black-capped Chickadeedeedee |
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| New England in winter = Dark-eyed Juncos, and thank the gods for that |
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| What's your subspecies...? Ah ok, ta |
