Showing posts with label Red-winged Blackbird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red-winged Blackbird. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Life In the Breeding Season Lane at Boomer Lake
Brown Thrasher
Ditto
Male Great-tailed Grackle and Fledgling
Great-tailed Grackle Fledgling
Green Heron Adult
Eastern Phoebe
American Robin
Barn Swallow
Red-winged Blackbird
First Half June 2018
There has been a great deal of activity this year, not that there was appreciably less last year, BUT there were less birds. Every year, though, some species tend to outweigh others, and this year is no different.
Some species arrived a little earlier, set up at nesting sites, but didn't begin nesting until the usual time. Other species began nesting right away and lost clutches due to a spring cold snap, but the important thing is that they tried again.
With our earth heating up as it is, it is going to be trial and error, especially when it comes to birds that has a relationship with water, namely shores and beaches, as their food supply is drifting northeast where it is cooler.
This is a small sample of breeding birds and fledglings, as well as nesting birds that are doing their jobs as best they can in a somewhat trying time were they must make adjustments for extra heat and food sources.
All the birds shown are generalist species, not specialists, who will have a more difficult time. Will they survive as time marches on? We'll see, and if they do--like the Greater and Lesser Prairie Chickens and other prairie specialties, they will have to make adjustments, which they are not used to doing.
Like you, I certainly hope that they can.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Green Heron Age Progression, 061917
Eldest Member of Clutch 2
All Four Members of Clutch 2
Ditto, Pose 2
Female Red-winged Blackbird
on Bradford Pear
Clutch 1
Male Parent, Clutch 2
One Member of Clutch #1
With a Parent
Clutch #1
Clutch #1
Ditto
Ditto
Clutch 1 Members at Play
Ditto
Note Birth Hierarchy
Clutch 1 Member
at Clutch 2 Snag
Clutch 1
Clutch 1
06-19-17
0652-0845/66-74 F/clear/calm-ESE-2/80-74% RH/30.05-30.12 Hg and rising
This was a day of education, for the older birds (clutch 1) responded to the current nest tree to teach the nestlings how to branch (stay out of the nest and explore the tree). That is a prelude to learning balance and how to navigate the tree. As of today, there has been one bird in clutch 2 observed. I have not seen the others, but an adults been observed on a third nest for a few days now.
It further appears that "pair 3" is courting, which happens just before copulation and nest building.
Bear with me for the catch up process, as I am viewing roughly 1,000 photos of my study subjects each week. Over the past four years, I likely have between 10,000 to 15,000 Green Heron photos regarding parental duties, and they are all very different, as with humans.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Nature At Its Best at Boomer Lake and the Creek
Mallard and Ducklings
Green Heron on Nest
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Snail
Red-winged Blackbird
Another Mallard with Ducklings
Fungus in Dead Tree
Green Herons Switch Nest Sitting
Prothonotary Warbler
Ditto
Week of 06-05-17
I don't want to jinx it, but it appears that our fearless Green Herons might have young this time.
Even though we have blowing willow leaves and branches in the way, I might have seen three little sleeping forms in the nest today, while the pair was off foraging for food.
There are also plenty of young Mallards on the water of both Boomer Lake and Boomer Creek, and naturally our Canada Geese have reared plenty of young, as well.
Now we are seeing young of nearly all shapes and sizes that belong to nearly all the area birds, and I will try to get photos of some samplings, as I am able to do so. There were several young robins observed this morning.
Boomer Creek has been giving us beautiful things, mostly nature related, but I also finally managed a
couple of halfway decent shots of a Prothonotary Warbler. Since the birds always seem to be in the same general area, I have also been looking for the nesting cavity. I believe that I have found the tree, but I don't want to appear too interested, as it could make the pair fearful. After all, I have had the good fortune to photograph one or both of them, so I cannot complain.
Here's to the week ahead!
Saturday, May 27, 2017
There Is Plenty of Light on Boomer Lakefront
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Green Heron Pair
Green Heron
Female Orchard Oriole
Canada Gosling
Least Flycatcher
Female Orchard Oriole
Ditto
Great-tailed Grackle
Female Red-winged Blackbird
Great Blue Heron
Prothonotary Warbler
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
Green Heron on Nest
Male Orchard Oriole
Least Flycatcher
Great Blue Heron
05-22 through 05-26-17
This was an impressive workweek, as far as I am concerned. The trumpet vine bush on Boomer
Lake's east side is nearly in full bloom, which invited the Orchard Orioles that nest nearby to partake.
They have nested in the area for years, most likely because this bush exists there, as well as the fact that their site is in the willows by the water, which really attracts a number of good birds to its habitat.
Another wonderful piece of habitat is Heron Cove and the surrounding area, which has native trees, mulberries, and plenty of wetland habitat, which attracts my beautiful Heron colony. Right now, there are two pairs of Green Herons there, which perturbs my Great Blue Heron. He just doesn't have the freedom to come and go as he pleases, but he really does accommodate his Green Heron cousins quite well.
Our usual suspects also enjoy the area, which includes the grackles, blackbirds, warblers, flycatchers, warblers, and when in the area, the catbirds.
Boomer Creek also has dense habitat for those birds that prefer those kinds of areas, like the breeding birds, the shy Yellow-billed Cuckoo, this year's first Least Bittern, and a good group of migratories when they come through.
There are still a few more photos in the camera, which I will save until a later date. These include a few that are a bit on the unusual side, but I'm sure that you'll be pleased.
Until then, enjoy your own private birding areas, and as always, let me know what you are observing.
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