I have been seeing here by the east shore a family of 8 Common Mergansers, I
presume the mother and 7 young, although they are all the same size.
One day one of them caught quite a large fish and then swallowed it quickly
when its sibs zoomed over to steal it! I was surprised it was able to get
Today, I had not only my regular Catbirds at the jelly feeder (with half an
orange), but an adult and a juvenile B. Oriole came to feed! They ate suet, as
well as jelly and orange.
At night the flying squirrels eat the jelly & suet, too!
Donna L. Scott
535 Lansing Station Road
Lansing
From:
There were Caspian Terns at the end of the wildlife drive on Tuesday. They
were rather distant.
My orioles are still here and coming for the jelly. The juveniles were finally
eating jelly on their own. I still have my Grosbeaks coming. I have a pair of
House Wrens nesting in a birdhouse
Wonderful.
I wonder if orioles are around but wandering more widely, after their chicks
are out, and we don't see them because they're not staying put singing any more
but ranging widely wherever there is food? I recently saw several orchard
orioles flying around Hog Hole, and several more of
The Baltimore Orioles frequently coming faithfully for grape jelly end of May,
in June and earlier in July have not been seen in at least a week. The catbird
stills comes. Think Orioles must have started moving around—away. I miss
them. They are so beautiful!
Judy Thurber
Liverpool
Sent
Tuesday at my east shore beach, I saw a Caspian Tern fly over.
Donna Scott
Lansing
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On Jul 25, 2019, at 5:48 PM, Marie P. Read
mailto:m...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,
I took a short walk around Salt Pt this morning (9-10 am) with the goal of
checking out Myers Pt spit for
Hi all,
I took a short walk around Salt Pt this morning (9-10 am) with the goal of
checking out Myers Pt spit for Caspian Terns. None of those yet but I did see
some cool birds, the best of which was multiple Baltimore Orioles (adult male
and female, plus at least 4 juveniles all foraging in
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 7:20 AM John Confer wrote:
> Hi Suan,
>
>Thanks for posting that.
>
>Mammals are rarely captured by Merlin, but not never. Adults often
> remove the tail and head before they bring it to nestlings. That has been a
> frustration when I tried to identify prey, which
Hi Suan,
Thanks for posting that.
Mammals are rarely captured by Merlin, but not never. Adults often remove
the tail and head before they bring it to nestlings. That has been a
frustration when I tried to identify prey, which I did for 50 prey. None of
them were mammals, but dead floppy
