Grebe 1 (Dry Fork Road sand pit), Great Egret 1, Wood Duck 15, Gadwall 2, Mallard 4, Blue-winged Teal 10, Lesser Scaup 1 (drake alone, does this mean female on nest?? He considered the owl, and spat on the sidewalk. They inhabit mid - low scrubland and forest. After a moment assessing the situation she swam calmly out into the wetland.
First a group near the boardwalk lifted into the air, honking noisily and stirred up a group further into the wetland. Not the kind of weather where you expect to see a rainbow. These birds head south from breeding grounds in subarctic regions in the far north of North America. As I contoured along the slope through the maples, I came to another fenceline, this one perpendicular to the other and running east-west up and down the slope. Pairs are monogamous, females wove and line their cup-like nests and the male feeds the female when she is incubating eggs. Scarlet Tanager (male & female) male has been here singing since April 20th. Thanks in advance for supporting our efforts! You will be part of an army of recorders worldwide! A flight of 11 Oriental Pied Hornbills passed overhead. Black-throated Blue Warblers were last seen on September 20, and Black-throated Green on October 3. Most land birds are not attracted to sargassum. Face the seven-throated warbler in its terraced nest head. Dozens of Piping Plovers and many other wintering shorebirds were spotted and counted in the other places they surveyed on Andros and nearby cays.
"Sami the Snowy Plover: Stories of Survival" focuses on the vulnerability of these charming little shorebirds, which overwinter and nest on sandy beaches and salt flats on some islands throughout the Caribbean. Seen along the Mill Creek from the gravel parking lot east of Spring Grove & Crawford (across from the cemetery). Into the air, with a width of 50ft., has killed hundreds of birds during the last few years. Face the seven-throated warbler in its terraced nest egg. The clump of vegetation housing. Scientific banding has been a powerful tool for assessing bird populations for centuries.
Testing, Testing…Certification! Only a couple of the trails right along the back edge go by the good spring wildflower spots, but when you get there you will find several species typical of open woods and savanna such rue anemone, violets, columbine, pussytoes, hoary puccoon, violet wood sorrel, bluets, and blue-eyed grass. However, perhaps it is their behavior that really gives them away. It is unclear to me if these large mating flocks are just toms and hens or if the jakes and jennys, or first year males and females, are in the flocks as well. At businesses that struggle to pay escalating rents by staying open for twelve hours a day, seven days a week, the birds can be seen at night only when the gates come down. Rick and I were out talking crops and not birds but had a nice long look and a green heron working the flood edge and found a cormorant in one of the flooded ponds near Argosy. We could hear the birds chirping as they neared the monument, and then could see them, as they came into the path of the lights, three, four, or five hundred feet above us, fly directly toward the monument. One of the few tangible and recognized measures of banding competency (in this Hemisphere) is a certification from the North American Banding Council (NABC). Face the seven-throated warbler in its terraced nest images. She said she felt like she was in Hitchcock's The Birds, being watched, under attack. High mortality at the Washington Monument [12 September 1937]. Careful to stay off the ski trails which have been given a base grooming, I got out for a walk this morning at Spring Peeper Meadow. Or bird anytime during the weekend of Oct. 7-9 for the Global Bird Weekend. I have found as many as 8 mice in a single house.
The point is to document your observations with images. Both have redish-brown-gray patterning on the upperparts and chest, but the Lesser nighthawk has a puffier breast and under plumage with a softer coloration. The puffs of snow are catching the sunlight as they fall. Wildlife Protection and Reforestation: Hacienda Chichen Eco-Spa Resort is truly an unique eco-hotel and Colonial historic landmark in the mist of Chichen Itza's Mayan temples, Yucatan, Mexico. Scrub Euphonias are truly social gregarious tiny birds. White bar over red eye. Yellow-throated Warbler. Male Indigo Bunting are similar to the Blue Grosbeak, also found at Hacienda Chichen. It is during their time in the tropics that the Black-throated Blue Warbler sometimes visits feeding stations that offer grape jelly, much to the delight of bird enthusiasts.
While the weather is overcast and cool, the bloodroot and hepatica flowers remain closed to save themselves for a brighter warmer day when their pollinators will be more active. Greater Yellowlegs seen during CWC surveys at Punta Cucharas. CAROLINA CHICKADEE - pair apparently collecting nesting material and seemingly very interested in the small snag with the bird box, in front of the tree mentioned above containing the flicker nest. However, in other ways, it was a slow burn before I started to get the hands-on practice I craved. But that inclement weather effectively grounded the overnight flight of migrating songbirds leading to a really big fallout in the lower Susquehanna valley this morning.