Dr. Ray L. Winstead
Professor of Biology (retired),
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Blue Spruce Park Chickadees:

Feeding Chickadees Out of My Hand
near Indiana, Pennsylvania

Photos

 
Ray Winstead with two Chickadees
near Indiana, Pennsylvania
December 26, 2012

 

 
Ed Patterson, Director
Indiana County Parks & Trails
February 7, 2013

 
Maddy and Daniel
Photo sequence above by Dawn Winstead
11-24-2019.
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Maddy
Photo by Dawn Winstead, 11-24-2022.
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Two Photos Above Taken By TJ Fairchild
March 19, 2023.
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Two Brunettos with a Nuthatch and a Titmouse
January 19, 2024.
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Allyson Barrante, September 8, 2023
Photo by Ed Patterson
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Bill Waryck, teacher from Indiana PA, with IUP Fulbright Scholars Sophie Faye (Senegal), Faith Kaylie Yi Cheng Ong (Singapore), April Belarmino (Philippines), Ee Noch Ng (Singapore), Francis Etyand (Uganda), and Jobson Barbosa (Brazil). Note the Tufted Titmouse on Ee Noch Ng's hand in the middle. 11-22-2023
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Memory Collage from Faith Kaylie Yi Cheng Ong (Singapore)
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Sophia Faye and a Nuthatch
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Ray Leading "Hot Chocolate Bird Walk"
Photos above by Frederic Kipp, 2-11-2023.
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Nice Feathers!
Click image of Tufted Titmouse flying
for a larger version.
Photo by Kimberly Shawley Ryder

 


Mary Roellinger visiting from Bethel Park, near Pittsburgh, PA, with two chickadees and a titmouse
12-13-2022.
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(Birds being fed near the woods were led and enticed farther up into the playground than usual
- and this experience stimulated the idea, fund raising, and the construction of The Chickadee Pathway sidewalk into the woods.)

 


Wes, Shanda, and Downy Woodpecker  2.28.2019


Ken and Downy Woodpecker  4.15.2019

 


Downy Woodpecker and Gabriella 2019
Photo by Kimberly Shawley Ryder

See video of Downy Woodpecker in 2023

 


Landen and a different approach.
Photo by Kimberly Shawley Ryder

 


Cecelia Mullen, her mother, and a chickadee.


Cecelia Mullen, April 2021: "My Program Did A Photo Contest & I Won First Place."
Tufted Titmouse at Blue Spruce Park.
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Dr. Amadu Ayebo, retired IUP Biology Professor

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Friends of the Parks "Chili Walk" February 8, 2020 (five birds in photo trio)

 


November 12, 2021

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Blue Spruce Park, Indiana, PA,
January 23, 2021. Photos by Dawn. 18ºF.
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1) Waiting for me to open the seeds, having heard/seen me coming.


2) "OK, the seed container is open - let's go early before he's ready!"


3) OK, I'm ready now. Who's next?


4) White-breasted Nuthatch.


5) Black-capped Chickadee.


6) Tufted Titmouse.


7) "My turn now!"

 


September, 2017

Bob Mulvihill, Ornithologist,
National Aviary,
Pittsburgh, PA

Ray Winstead

Photo taken by Daniel Winstead, February 20, 2018

 

Eighteen PHOTOS
December 26, 2012 - January 3, 2013


Friends of the Parks and Indiana County Decathlon
"Chili Walk," February 11, 2017

 


February 4, 2017 Friends: 63 Photos
(Link to larger version of this photo)


Ten Photos of Merle and Eleanor Stilwell January 4, 2016

You can also see a write-up of a field trip November 23, 2013 I led to feed the birds with the Todd Bird Club at

Todd_Nuthatch_2014_January.pdf

A photo of me feeding a nuthatch was also on the front page of the local newspaper on December 10, 2013.  The newspaper photographer Tom Peel was out at the park looking for a shot, so he took photos of me feeding the birds.


December 10, 2013 Front Page Indiana Gazette, Photo by Tom Peel
 


Christmas Day 2018 (Modified)
Ray, Daniel, Jacob, and Dawn Winstead
(Click image for enlarged image - photos of birds taken at Blue Spruce Park.)


Christmas Day 2018 (Original)
Ray, Daniel, Jacob, and Dawn Winstead
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The birds are happy, and so am I!
December 17, 2020
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