This platform sunflower feeder is almost six feet tall, and this black bear's head is as least as high as the feeder while standing on hind legs! It was not quite daylight yet, so please excuuuse the darkness! But gee zoo, I think this is a big one, as RMWA bears go. It also visited our "squirrel proof" feeders and made a mess of them. So the nightly "bringing in" of the feeders begins...

Picture shot near dawn with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens (Black). by Cliff of Cherry Log, GA.

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This past week, our birdwatching eyes discovered Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks in our sunflower feeders. According to National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region - Revised Edition this southern tip of the Appalachians may be just a Spring migration stopover from their tropic Winter home to regions North to breed.

Here one shares a high deck feeder with a Titmouse, with a Goldfinch waiting its' turn, taken with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens (Black).

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At first I thought this was the elusive Ivory Billed Woodpecker, here in North Georgia. Closer inspection of my digital picture (this one is a thumbnail), shows it to be an unusually grey Pileated Woodpecker with a very long, bushy crest, and a distinctive white patch on its' back.

Member guide Dwight has a reasonable theory that the white patch is bare skin devoid of feathers that were scratched off in mating. This is a female Pileated, which would account for the duller color of black overall.

My favorite Woodpecker reference book is Woodpeckers of North America.

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This pair of Eastern Bluebirds, with male being the "ham" for my cam, after checking out this house on our front porch a few times over the last couple weeks may be staying to raise a fam.

Their pair display may be part of the courtship ritual. These pictures are only "thumbnail versions", but were taken in high detail for 8x10 enlargement, with my most favorite camera, a Canon Digital Rebel XTi 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens (Black).

Get these excellent reads on Bluebirds for your library:

• The Bluebird Monitor's Guide to Bluebirds and Other Small Cavity Nesters
• The Bluebird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting Bluebirds (A Stokes Backyard Nature Book)

or, just "do it", and be on your way to backyard sights like this with a Bluebird nest box:

• Audubon Cedar Bluebird House (7.25" x 9" x 13.5")
• Bluebird Nest Box Kit

Speaking of Blue, this Blue Wisteria is so fragrant, growing on our front porch, it forms a sun shade where our frequent visiting Finches, Wrens, and Hummingbirds perch.

I bought this vine from Blue Wisteria Vine.

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