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Today I was joined by Jim Fry. We began with a stop at Highbanks Metro Park
looking for Summer Tanagers. The males were heard singing in the tree canopy
but refused to cooperate and show themselves, however when we were just
about to give up a female dropped down and foraged near us. We got decent views
of her before she moved on. The Summer tanagers have been staying near the
nature center.
We moved on to the Hoover Nature Preserve where we birded in areas where we
could stay in the shade. There we stopped to visit the Ruby-throated
Hummingbird as she continues to incubate her eggs. If my calculations are accurate the
eggs should hatch this weekend. I’m hoping to observe her feeding the
hatchlings next week. We checked several of the Prothonotary warbler nest sites and
confirmed that many nests fledged during the past several days. We tried to
locate the fledglings by observing the adults . I located just one today as
the adult brought it food. Later we located a new nest site that I had not
previously found. The adults were bringing food to the hatchlings and carrying
off fecal sacs.
On the way back home we added a “white water rat”, aka Mute Swan. As
beautiful as these introduced birds are they are a bane to native waterfowl. They
aren’t the best of neighbors to other water birds, often chasing them off, but
worse, they destroy the food supply by their habits of tearing plants out by
their roots. I consider them to be the British revenge for the American
Revolution.
Species of interest included:
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Pileated Woodpecker
Cliff Swallow
Wood Thrush
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Parula
Prothonotary Warbler
Summer Tanager
A quiet day. The birds knew to stay still and in the shade better than we
did.
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58C (2) & (3)
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