Hile School Road-Freeville One of several Baltimore Oriole nestlings became a fledgling this morning, and is now giving new meaning to the adjective “incessant”. Its sibling(s) are still being fed in the nest and I am seeing relatively little parental attention going to it. But the parents couldn’t possibly be missing it, as its call rate per minute is about 17 little ch-ch-chs of 1-2 sec each. Its like having a baby monitor that broadcasts your baby breathing! Any interruption could mean trouble.
It didn’t stop when its mother trilled roughly (warningly) at me. But it hopped expectantly when its dad dropped a few liquid notes out of the tree well above it. Yesterday it was up and looking around out of the nest, after feedings. At one point in a gust of wind, it nearly lost it, wings outstretched apparently clinging to the entrance side that I wasn’t watching. I have not seen its sibs appearing over the rim like that, so there may be more than 1 day of asynchrony in fledging. Anne -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
