Archive for May, 2009
« Previous EntriesMixed Feeding Flock #4
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Lots and lots going on in the bird world, even as spring passes into summer…
The National Bird-Feeding Society has launched its all-new website, which has lots of wonderful pictures, a blog and other information on bird-feeding, and (most important to BC) information on wildlife conservation and education. … The NBFS [...]
Dawn Song of a Great Crested Flycatcher
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Already the early morning chorus is much less exuberant and crowded than three or four weeks ago. This morning one cardinal began singing a little after 5:00 am, joined about 5:15 by a bluebird and several minutes later by a phoebe. About 5:45 other birds began to sing or call, including [...]
Crazed Bird(ing)
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
I’ve always thought the Bobolink is kind of a crazy bird. Look at that crazy color scheme - black and gold and white. Not to mention its crazy, complicated song, or the odd way it flutters down to a landing in a country field like this one.
Well, Warren, Dan Haas [...]
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker ?????????
To Whom It May Concern:
I am sportsman in northeastern Kentucky and recall a bird sighting that now has me puzzled. I have seen several Pileated Woodpeckers in my time but seen a different color woodpecker while hunting last year during my states crossbow season for deer. The woodpecker I saw was about two feet or [...]
An Early Summer Day
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The day began with the song of a Wood Thrush, lyrical, flute-like notes drifting up through the leaves of the woods from somewhere down around the creek. The morning was cloudy and gray, the trees restless in a light breeze. I stood for several minutes in a fine, barely perceptible sprinkle [...]
American Redstart
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Early in the afternoon while I was sitting outside reading after lunch, a female American Redstart – gray with yellow patches in wings and tail – flitted out of the foliage and briefly perched on a bare branch while she ate something. After that, I could hear two Redstarts singing among [...]
Hairy Woodpecker Pair
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
A male Hairy Woodpecker flew to a spot high up on a tall dead pine calling as it arrived in an long, unusual string of loud wicka-chew sort of notes that sounded agitated or excited. Then it flew with loud peenk! calls to the lowest part of another pine trunk, where [...]
A Brown Thrasher Conflict
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Two Brown Thrashers also were moving around in the branches of the white oaks near the house, and one sang for four or five minutes, then fell silent. A few minutes later, one of the Brown Thrashers suddenly hurtled out of the oaks in a loud, fierce squabble and tangle with [...]
Barred Owls
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The day ended after dark, with the raucous calls of two Barred Owls that sounded as if they were in the branches right outside our windows. They didn’t stay long. We may have frightened them away when we turned out the light and walked to the window to listen. But it’s [...]
Trio-flying Chimney Swifts
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Late this morning three Chimney Swifts passed low over me, flying close together and twittering loudly and constantly, with stiff wings fluttering. They swept through the trees and down over open grassy yards, then streaked back up again high, swooping over me several times while I was walking, always twittering and [...]
Bizzy day
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
I went by the clinic to pick up a Great Horned Owl to take out to the flight center. The clinic volunteers and I accidentally saw Petra, one of our education eagles, taking a bath. Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera ready when she was in her tub, but here she [...]
“There is not a spig of grass ….
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
…that shoots uninteresting to me.” ~ Thomas Jefferson Warren and I were honored to lead a bird walk early this week along the The Saunders-Monticello Trail. The trail is part of Kemper Park - 89 acres of pure birding bliss with wetlands, native trees and a two acre pond- that [...]
Yellow Jacket Canyon
Submitted by BrdPics Blog
Last weekend, I finally got the chance to hike into Yellow Jacket Canyon in the far SW corner of Colorado. This site is famous among Colorado birders as the only reliable spot in the state for breeding Lucy’s Warblers. I almost got the chance to visit in 2004, but the flu kept [...]
Just Duckie
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Baby bird season is here. This little guy came to us via PET ER yesterday. I got him to TLC and bedded it down for the night. A heat light, food, and a couple cuddle friends. This guy was a little smarter than me. He climbed to the top of the [...]
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
As promised here are the shots of the Chestnut-sided Warbler!
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New Flowers… New Friends…
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Trillium.
I promise you this gorgeous flower actually does exist. We met this flower and tons of new friends at at the Spring Wildflower Symposium presented by the Wintergreen Nature Foundation.Yellow Lady Slipper!
The Spring Wildflower Symposium is a celebration of natural history at the height of spring in the Blue [...]
Blue-headed Vireo
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
Hey All,
I know that you thought I had forgotten about you, and honestly there is a bit a of truth to that. Life brings its ups and downs and I have had my fair share of both over the last months which has been quite distracting. I haven’t been out to [...]
IMBD at the Alaska Zoo
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Yesterday, International Migratory Bird Day was celbrated at the Alaska Zoo and Bird TLC was there to help out. We couldn’t have asked for any better weather and a nicer crowd. I was able to take any pictures, but check out John Gomes website at
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Pleased, pleased to meetcha!
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
We were VERY pleased to meet this Chestnut-Sided Warbler and lots of his friends here at Wintergeen Resort, where Birdcouple has been leading birding walks at the Wintergreen Nature Foundation’s Spring Wildflower Symposium.
We’ve also been pleased to meet lots of wonderful folks up here, great biologist, nature enthusiasts and [...]
Releases
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
I got another picture in email from the Goff Family Memorial release. That young eagle was anxious to be out of there.
Our Great Horned Owl that’s been visiting at the flight center is getting released on Monday at the Bird TLC property on Monday at 4:30. I have to work [...]
The Soft Calls of a Tanager Pair
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The soft, clicking pit-oo, pit-oo calls of a pair of Summer Tanagers have been traveling through the trees all around the house for the past few days. These are quieter, more intimate calls than their usual, conversational pik-a-tuk.
Late this morning the pair were calling softly like this and going from place [...]
American Redstart
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
A flash of black and orange wings fluttering in and out of thick green leaves, and a high, clear song in several different variations – American Redstarts seemed to be almost everywhere today. The ones I saw were all males – small active black birds with splashes of orange in the [...]
Indigo Bunting and Roadside Weeds and Wildflowers
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
It’s been another warm, humid, windy day with a damp blue sky full of huge, restless gray and white clouds. An Indigo Bunting – the first of the season here – sang from somewhere among the tangle of weeds in the old field just outside the entrance to our subdivision. I [...]
Bats and a Full Orange Moon
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
After a hot, gusty, cloudy day, by evening the wind had died down, the clouds had dispersed, and the air was calm and almost sultry as a big full round orange moon rose and shimmered behind the dark outlines of the trees. Two bats swooped low over the grass and all [...]
Sandhill Crane
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Matt and Ellen brought in this sandhill crane they came accross. I’m not sure how it got injured. It either flew into something or was hit by a car. Tomorrow it gets x-rays. There are no obvious injuries, but it has problems standing and has no desire to eat.
We’ll keep you [...]
