This is the far bog. We have not reached this spot in many months. Access from the back woods is made difficult in wet and rainy seasons since my neighbor ransacked the bridge over the creek we need to cross to get to it (he seeks to prevent the ATV machiniacs and generally, everyone, from riding or walking near his house). He has a tendency to get carried away. The old railway trail goes right by his place and it is the property line between his land and ours.
This nuthatch found some food on a trunk of a dead tree in the far bog. They will creep upside down along the tree, sideways and vertically, looking for food among the wood and bark. They are not woodpeckers but basic scavengers. I have another image of a white-breasted nuthatch at here.
This is my friend the red-wing blackbird (right) that I find at the bog at the Smithfield Plantation preserve.
Hummingbirds and squirrels visit Mystic
Among the host of wildlife hanging around the Mystic homestead are a couple very regular hummingbirds and the usual suburban contingent of squirrels. It took an hour or so sitting on the deck waiting for the hummingbirds to appear. They did periodically about thirty minutes apart and for only a half-a-minute at a time. Having some reading material was not beneficial for picture taking but made the time go faster. I ended up not reading after missing one visit.
The squirrels were mostly eating all the other bird feed on the ground by the other feeder and seemed to be somewhat disgusted the dude of the house had not put more bird feed out.