May be fire is good. It seemed to have burned just in time. Some fresh growth would be evident and might keep off some unwanteds.
There seem to be to slow stream of hawks passing by but they are very high. But I dont have much of time to be out there. But in-between I go out to get some fresh air. Highlights are one RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, 3 COOPER'S HAWKS and many red-tails and Tv's Also with SFO class we (actually I, others could not see long enough to id) two territorial male PURPLE FINCHES and one was accompanied by a female. Also Bluebirds were starting collect nesting material and a Tree Swallow, in spite of many empty boxes did not like Bluebirds occupying the nest. One of them, I think it is she based on my previous observations made very strong statement saying Bluebirds have no right to be there as they are swallow boxes by emphatically pecking the box roof in which Bluebirds were adding nesting material. You can see here box pecking behavior and bluebirds complaining too. In this video I just missed the literal fight between bluebird and Tree swallow. Tree swallow pinned the bluebird male on to the ground twice. You can hear all the commotion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNTV3OH4rK4 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Bulatek & Teresa Wagner Bulatek [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cayugabirds-l] fire at Montezuma Dave was just driving by - it will be devastating, and it appears that there is not much to be done to intercede. Teresa -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
