A late Yellow-billed Cuckoo. -KMP
As I’ve mentioned on a few occasions, Mother Nature is a capricious #%$*&. Good to you one day, terrible the next. Or, in this case, the other way around: Yesterday it was dead; no matter how much we urged, kowtowed, whinged we got no birds. Today we had good numbers from the opening round – without an appreciable change in the weather conditions. Just MN’s whimsy…..
An unusually aggressive young Cedar Waxwing.
Laura feeding herself to a waxwing.
October 4th; Banded 8:
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet
3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Gray Catbird
1 Nashville Warbler
1 Song Sparrow
1 American Goldfinch
October 5th; Banded 45:
2 Mourning Doves
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
There were a number of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers around today. -KMP
2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
5 Golden-crowned Kinglets
2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Swainson’s thrush
2 Hermit Thrushes
1 Gray Catbird
1 Cedar Waxwing
1 Tennessee Warbler
4 Yellow-rumped Warblers
1 Song Sparrow
13 White-throated Sparrows
First White-crowned Sparrow of the season. -KMP
2 Eastern White-crowned Sparrows
1 Dark-eyed Juncos
1 American Goldfinches
ET’s: 44 spp.
Photos:
Painted Lady. -KMP
Male Downy Woodpecker – note the red eye indicating an AHY bird. -KMP
If you look closely you can see the nicitating membrane on the bird’s eye – it protects the eye and moistens it. -KMP
Yellow-billed Cucko. -KMP