Showing posts with label Brown Creeper. Show all posts
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Oklahoma Winter Bird Profile: Brown Creeper
This small, thin brown songbird has a curved bill and creeps along on horizontal branches or upward on trunks of trees. It is usually solitary, but is known to frequent areas with other songbirds, like chickadees, woodpeckers, kinglets, titmice, or nuthatches.
The American tree creeper is the only member in its family, and it uses its long stiff tail for balance while searching for insects within the bark of trees, where its cryptic coloration serves it well. It has a high pitched and piercing call, tending to spiral up a tree. It then flies back down to earth and repeats the process on the same or a different tree.
Brown Creeper
Boomer Lake Station, 2015
Out of the breeding season, they can often be found upon deciduous trees. The creeper enjoys mature forest with large trees, but surprisingly, is often a victim of window strikes. The songbird is sometimes used to determine the health of a forest ecosystem by its presence. Forest management is being changed to increase the numbers of these birds, as well as their comrades, the Marbled Murrelet and Northern Spotted Owl.
The male shares identical plumage with the female, yet he is larger. There are gray, rufous, and brown morphs within the species, as well as three distinct subspecies. The Mexican subspecies is found in southwest New Mexico and southeast Arizona. Eastern birds are paler, short billed and larger, while the western birds are smaller, longer billed, and darker. Each subspecies shares different dialects.
This neotropical migrant will winter as far south as Central America, yet many spend winters in the central part of the US. Never expect one of these songbirds at a feeder.
They are Boreal Forest and northeastern and western breeders.
For the Brown Creeper and Species It Surrounds Itself With, See:
https://debhirt.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-birds-say-that-spring-is-here.html
Sunday, February 4, 2018
January's Birds of Boomer
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Adult Cooper's Hawk
Northern Mockingbird
Female Belted Kingfisher
Brown Creeper
Northern Cardinal
on bradford pear tree
Red-shouldered Hawk
Ring-necked Duck
January 2018
The weather was very unsettled and very dry this month. However, there were a few warmer
and springlike days where there was a little action.
The White-fronted Goose was on Boomer Creek just off Goose Island with a Canada Goose pal, and there appeared to be more Cackling Geese than usual for the month, even though there was so little
cold weather. There lake barely froze this winter.
This also means that it is highly likely that with unseasonable weather there will be a greater amount of feeder bird illness this winter. This will bear watching and most likely a lot of feeder cleaning and seed changing to keep up with this problem.
Hawks have been visiting the area frequently, so there could be a need to stop feeding for a period of time, as songbirds could easily fall victim to a swift and hungry hawk.
A few ducks have been visiting with us on and off, for they prefer colder weather.
Many songbirds seem to be affected by the springlike weather that has been with us. Will we have an early spring with early birds? Time will tell, but it appears rather probably. Now all we need is a few
good rains to give us a good crop of spring fruit.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
The Birds Say that Spring is Here
Bewick's Wren
Brown Creeper
Cedar Waxwing
Dark-eyed Junco
American Robin
Buffleheads Mating
Male Bufflehead
"Landing Gear Down 2"
Bufflehead Pair
Canada Geese
Male Northern Cardinal
Female Northern Cardinal
Beaver
Dark-eyed Junco
Mallard Pair
Brown Creeper
Another week in the life of the illustrious denizens of Boomer Lake. Spring is here early, which
was indicated by the animals. A calendar holds them to no set dates. When animals are ready,
they make it so. Several birds have been located at the Tree of Life, which is on the water and provides the insectivores like the Brown Creeper, the Carolina Chickadee, the White-breasted Nuthatch, and the Red-bellied and Downy Woodpecker with sustenance. There is even a nesting
sight being made ready by a pair of Carolina Chickadees, which will be monitored by Yours Truly.
Spring is both alive and well and in the Oklahoma area, so enjoy. Trees are not only budding, but some are even flowering.
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