Wrens
Friday, November 21st, 2008There were two Carolina Wrens foraging in the yard yesterday and again this morning.
There were two Carolina Wrens foraging in the yard yesterday and again this morning.
A splash of bright red next to a small clump of contour feathers on the concrete slab yesterday afternoon was evidence of fresh carnage. A closer look at the feathers this morning showed that they had belonged to a pigeon.
I was thinking of taking down the feeders and not scattering seed. I can’t continue to [...]
Hawk
I forgot to mention the sub-adult Cooper’s Hawk that was in the yard on Sunday. It caught something that was hiding in the thicket where its […] conspecific found the House Sparrow two days later.
The yard squirrels seem to ignore these predators—not adaptive I think, as a desperate Cooper’s might opt for larger prey—some [...]
I was looking through past posts and saw that on September 24, 2007, I wrote about a Magnolia Warbler (female) I had seen in the yard, “That’s the yard’s fourth warbler species (the others are Tennessee, Mourning, and Common Yellowthroat).” On October 9, 2007, I recorded one Orange-crowned and one Nashville Warbler in the yard. [...]