Have been seeing our Downy and Hairy Woodpecker males around. This morning, the Hairy male sat at our water drinking station, sipping away, and while he sat there, the Downy approached and flew away, as did two Gray Jays. The Hairy was dominant in his size and being there first, I guess. We have been seeing several magpies, as well as one injured, crippled one a few days ago, who looked to be on his last legs and since that one day, we have not seen him again. Lots of black-capped chickadees, boreal chickadees, nuthatches, a few siskins altho not too many, Stellars Jays and Gray Jays. It's much less busy out there in the last week. Lately have not seen any juncos, maybe for about 3-4 days. It's possible they have left our area. We had a big storm come through here this past weekend, lots of rain and some wind, snow in the higher elevations. Probably was a good weather indicator for the birds to leave.
Our friend on the Moose River reported 37 swans this morning. The rivers have been high but apparently the swans are enjoying their stopover.
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