Great Crested Flycatchers are the only real notable bird for me. They’ve been nesting in my tulip tree. I think they’re out of the nest now and I was seeing the young following one of the adults today. Kestrel , crows , cardinals , thrashers , redheaded woodpecker , downy woodpecker , pileated woodpeckers , red tailed Hawk , and I think a Cooper’s hawk. There’s others that I’m forgetting. Sat outside in my sling chair after I replaced the sling in it. I needed a rest after wrestling with that PITA job ! The sling really didn’t want to slide into the track !
This is another bird that, if I ever saw one, I never recognized it. The Merlin App has indicated them at my home and a couple of other places.
Seem like a guy oughtta at least know what birds are in his yard and neighborhood.
Look in the canopy for great crested flycatchers, a bit bigger than a Cardinal.
Severe drought here is affecting everything, local mockingbirds not breeding, breeding white-wing dove numbers way down, same with the great-tailed grackles.
My purple martins are gonna lose 4 out of five young this year, already had a number of “fallouts”, young martins too weak to fly.
On top of that I just saw an adult Cooper’s hawk , a male, had to be resident. First breeding Coop I’ve seen in my neighborhood in 35 years, tho I’ve been expecting them. They are death on purple martins.
