Snowshoeing at North Mississippi Regional Park

On Tuesday, I went to go snowshoeing at the North Mississippi Regional Park. While I was there I got some pictures of some cool birds.

Even though it’s winter, the river is still moving. It’s never safe to walk onto a river.

At North Mississippi Regional Park, I found a White-breasted Nuthatch. They get their name from jamming large acorns into tree bark. They are a common feeder bird.

I got some pictures of the Downy Woodpecker pecking at the suet feeder.

The squirrels chewed on a side of the building and made a place to hide. Whenever they were scared they would just run up the side of the building and hide there. It’s amazing what a squirrel can do.

This is a House Finch. The House Finch can be a common bird feeder. Did you know?

“The House Finch was originally a bird of the western United States and Mexico. In 1940 a small number of finches were turned loose on Long Island, New York, after failed attempts to sell them as cage birds (“Hollywood finches”). They quickly started breeding and spread across almost all of the eastern United States and southern Canada within the next 50 years.”

Credit to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Finch/overview)

I also saw a Red-tailed Hawk catch a mouse. Seeing a Hawk hunt a mouse was pretty amazing. When I was trying to take pictures of the Hawk eating the mouse, it started flying away. A Hawk can eat 6-8 mice a day. But can also eat small mammals, small birds, and reptiles.

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