This afternoon we saw a brown creeper creeping around the trunk of our nearest biggest spruce tree, low to the ground. He disappeared and then briefly reappeared behind and around the next spruce trunk over to the right. Then moved further right to the next trunk and on up to the 6-7' level. Then into the branches and gone. Just the right moment to be looking out.
A few moments later, we saw a red-backed vole munching on whatever they like to munch, right below the feeder and then about an hour later, we saw 4 voles running up and down the trunk to the feeder. We are so happy to see all these voles, a good sign that their population did not crash as we had feared. Maybe our saw-whet owl will be back around Thanksgiving as he was last year and the previous year.
Our chickadee population is very healthy looking, we are thankful for that. A lot of black-caps as well as boreals, and of course the nuthatches are regulars.
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