how do you dispense the grape jelly to the Orioles? Is there a special feeder?
>From: "Steve Weston" <[email protected]> >To: "mnbird" <[email protected]>,"Mou-net" <[email protected]> >Subject: [mnbird] Dakota Co. (long & probably too chatty) >Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 12:13:58 -0500 > >On Saturday, about noon, being in Lakeville, I went to check out the >prairie near Soberg WMA southwest of CR70 and I-35. I had visited this >spot about a week ago, and had thought I heard the Henslows singing >intermittently a couple of times, but found it hard to separate the song >out from the background activity of the Sedge Wrens. This time a Henslows >was singing consistently and the song was unmistakable, east of the >intersection and south of the road, although I never did see the bird. > >If you haven't gotten your fix of Bobolinks for the year, they were in my >face most of the time, perching on the fence and scolding me. This time the >males only approached me, with the females in the background scurrying for >food. I suspect that the nest near the road that last week I was too close >to, has fledged. Last week I found Dickcissels, food in bill, on the >fence. This week they seemed less intent on scrounging, and were actually >singing on the wire. Other birds there included a brown Thrasher, noisy, >but concealed Sedge Wrens all over, and a Marsh Wren. Also found an Eyed >Brown Butterfly. I talked with one of the locals and found out that the >owners do not hay these fields. > >In another marsh in Lakeville I found a Spotted Sandpiper that I suspect >was trying to draw me away from its nest. > >Around the yard on Quiggley Lake the Barred Owls have fledged three, who >are every night begging right outside our window. The sound is closest to >the scream of Red-tailed Hawk. Last night they were practicing adult >calls. The Baltimore Orioles are scarfing down the grape jelly. Yesterday >we had four females/immatures and Cherie tells me that there are two males. > Hairy and Downies with young are visiting the suet and the chickadees >with their darker young ones are constantly parading through the sunflower >feeder. We have one Woody female that hangs around the yard, but I hope >she is not the one that led between eleven and fourteen little ones out of >one of our boxes. Our lake is historically quite inhospitable to your >Woodies, although I have never figured out why they fare so much more >poorly than the Mallards. > >I hope Cherie's list is not so long that I can't get out. > >Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN >[email protected] > > > > >_______________________________________________ >mnbird mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement
