4,000 acre prairie restoration and bison project 15 minutes from the house. I walk the trails over there frequently and went a couple of hours ago.
Saw,
Barn Swallows Eastern Kingbirds Turkey Vultures Wild Turkeys and Crows
The Merlin App on the phone detected a number of bird calls of stuff I didn't see. Most notably the Yellow Billed Cuckoo, or Storm Crow. I did hear the call, and it's one I've heard before. But I did not see the bird. I honestly don't recall ever hearing the term "Yellow Billed Cuckoo". I've heard of the storm crow, but figured it was a crow in a storm.
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 !
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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.
Bunch of Scrub (blue) Jays in the back yard until a Sharp Shinned or young Coopers Hawk showed up. Talk about fast movers. He missed and that was it for birds in the back yard for the rest of the morning.
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.
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The annual robins and swallows nesting in boxes on the house. Bald eagles, dove, turkey, geese and those long neck birds I call loons. Kinda like my Dad called every one from the Middle East AAArabs. Loons...
Didn't pay attention, but did see a dead sea roach in the street.
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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.
The great crested flycatcher is a tough one to get a good look at. I was aware of some kind of bird with a nest for a week before I was able to get a clear view and look it up. They stay way up in the tree and don’t really perch out in the open. They perch inside the tree mostly.
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I’ve downloaded the Merlin app and have been recording as I drink my coffee. So far I’ve got great crested flycatchers (seen) , Carolina wrens , black vultures (seen) , red shouldered hawk (seen) , Cardinal, tufted titmouse, crows (seen) , blue jays. So far that’s what I’ve seen and or recorded this morning. There’s definitely four flycatchers spread around the yard so I’m assuming two young have made it out of the nest. They’re not using the tulip tree anymore so not tending the nest.
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As I approach the double nickel in age I’ve gone soft ! I’ve been watching a bushy tailed tree rat sit on my feeder’s head and throw $11 a bag corn out and haven’t felt the need to shoot it yet. Yet…
‘TO LEARN WHO RULES OVER YOU, SIMPLY FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE’
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