"Backyard" Birds -- Northwest Montana (2)

This Gallery has images of birds typically found near our home in northwest Montana. We have many more photos of birds from other locations. You'll find links to those pages on our Galleries page.

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This female hairy woodpecker, picoides villosus, is finding insects in the deep crevasses of Ponderosa pine and other conifers.

A male pileated woodpecker, dryocopus pileatus, on a January afternoon.

A male northern flicker, colaptes auratus cafer, "red-shafted", attacking a Ponderosa pine near our home in NW Montana.

This female bobwhite, colinus virginianus, visited frequently in 2008. Bobwhites aren't native to Montana, but were introduced for hunting.

The red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, is a frequent visitor to our bird feeders.