Amazing Nature - Sublime Early Morning Light and Blazing Evening Scenes with a New Feathered Friend

Let me start with some #SublimeSunday shots with the early morning light breaking above the tree tops highlighting the lightly hoar frosted trees putting a certain sparkle into the scene.

Sublime Early Morning Light on the Lightly Frosted Bushes

Looking at that scene from a slightly different angle -

Lovely Morning Light Highlights the Frosted Bushes and Trees

Further down the road I came upon a field where this sun beams where just breaking over the trees and highlighting the field and frosted trees in the distance. This was accented with the expansive sky above.

Sunlight Just Breaking Out Onto the Field With Lightly Frosted Trees and Expansive Sky

That early morning light and light hoar frosting made for lovely scenes down the road...

Early Morning Light on Lightly Frosted Poplar Trees Lining the Road

Upon arriving home I found the nuthatch visiting the bird feeder. I have been trying to capture a good shot of him but he was always so timid. There was always only one nuthatch there and when I arrive on the scene he usually disappears. Today he stuck around (perhaps because we had big dumps of snow recently that may have been covering his food source and the bird feeder is easy pickings) and I got a few closeup shots.

Close Up of Red-breasted Nuthatch

Another Close Up of the Red-breasted Nuthatch Along with Male Redpoll

Close Up of Red-breasted Nuthatch at the Feeder

Nuthatch and Redpoll at the Feeder

Nuthatch and Chickadee at the Feeder

Knowing that the nuthatches prefer insects and other invertebrates as food which are not readily available in the winter here when everything freezes up and the fact that they didn't seem to be spending a lot of time at the feeder, I got to wondering what their feeding habits were.

Thanks to Wikipedia I found out:

most eat seeds during the winter, when invertebrates are less readily available. Larger food items, such as big insects, snails, acorns or seeds may be wedged into cracks and pounded with the bird's strong bill.
All nuthatches appear to store food, especially seeds, in tree crevices, in the ground, under small stones, or behind bark flakes, and these caches are remembered for as long as 30 days

I imagine the little nuthatch has stashes of seeds all around in the many evergreens surrounding our place.

With the evening we were graced with a beautiful sunset setting the sky ablaze! The beautiful sunsets always give me a sense of awe!

Sun Setting Putting Brilliant Colors in the Sky Behind the Tree Silhouettes

As the Sun Gets Deeper the Colors Get Deeper Setting the Sky Ablaze

Sunset Blazing Through the Tree Silhouettes

I hope you enjoyed these bits of Amazing Nature I shared - my entry to the #AmazingNature Weekly Contest - Details here

The photos of the Red-breasted Nuthatch is for @melinda010100 's #FeatheredFriends

All photos were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS

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