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Monday, October 1, 2018

Birds of Fall, Migration, and Falconry Birds


                                                          Juvenile Carolina Chickadee


                                                                  Ditto, View 2


                                                       Both Juvenile Males Fighting


                                                                     Ditto, View 2


                                                       One Carolina Chickadee Recovering
                                                                      From the Battle


                                                            Immature Cooper's Hawk


                                                       Juvenile American Kestrel


                                                           Juvenile Northern Goshawk


                                                                  Red-tailed Hawk


                                                        Juvenile Northern Cardinal


                                                                     Lincoln's Sparrow


                                                                    Brown Thrasher


09-15 through 09-30-18

This material is the second half of September, which started out with an interesting chain of events with juvenile Carolina Chickadees.  The group came to Heron Cove while I was there, comprised of two males and two females, possibly a family unit.

The males were both singing on their perches, then began fighting on the ground.  It appeared that the juvenile males were feeling their oats and showing off.  Getting closer to them for photos netted these
and it appeared necessary to end the battle, as it lasted between five and ten minutes.  It was feared that one was going to kill the other bird.  One bird was photographed tending to his soaking wet disheveled state.

On 09-22, a group of us went to a get together for hawk trapping at Great Salt Plains State Park and these were some of the beautiful falconry birds on display.  One of the Red-tails had been caught, along with a couple of Peregrine Falcons that were not there on that date.

We finished up with the earlier photos, which included a late hatch Northern Cardinal.  There is at least one more in a second nest.  Later discovered was the Lincoln's Sparrow pictured above and a lovely Brown Thrasher.  

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