Snap: Cardinal taking off

By Hawes Spencer | editor@readthehook.com
Published online 2:20pm Monday Dec 21st, 2009
and in print issue #0901 dated Thursday Jan 7th, 2010

news-cardinalsnow A cardinal takes off Saturday morning from an Ivy-area deck. –photo by Coy Barefoot

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snowyowl December 21st, 2009 | 3:39pm

Thanks Coy, beautiful picture. Cardinals in the snow, against the dark green pines or on bare branches, are winter eye candy.

Just looking out my city window, early yesterday morning, I saw a red-shouldered hawk, pileated, downy, hairy, and red-bellied woodpeckers, blue jay, tufted titmouse, chickadee, junco, white-throated sparrow, mourning doves, yellow bellied sapsucker, flicker, many house and goldfinches, pine siskins, and one lone robin.

snowyowl December 21st, 2009 | 4:20pm

Another great bird seen in Winter, the Belted Kingfisher --one seen yesterday along the Rivanna Trail, at Moore's Creek, end of Sunset Ave-- it's rattling cry heard as it swooped along the water.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Belted_Kingfisher/id