Birds

Birds are passing thru on the way north now ... while most of these can be local, the Cedar Waxwings are clearly moving north. These are the first i've seen in NC.

And this showed up yesterday and while native to this area, i rarely see Flickers here. This is a female Northern Flicker, yellow shafted which you can see in the second photograph.

These are always here and are so large they are easily confused with Ravens, however, they are Crows: These are amazingly large birds!