A pair of flickers just followed one after other up trunk of large ash, on E
side of tree. After one flew, the other has clung to the trunk, with its head
folded back, bill down into its feathers, in “roosting” position, if you can
imagine. A red v located very weirdly at the top off the
In case you're not on the Facebook "Raptor I.D." group.
Jerry Liguori has asked to let folks know that a friend of his is uploading
several hundred of his bird videos to youtube for everyone's
education/enjoyment. There are already a few hundred uploaded and more
coming. You can find them here:
Interesting observation, Anne.
A few months ago, we were startled by a banging sound on our back door at
night. When I went to look, I found a flicker appearing to fly into the door
repeatedly, but which might have just been it trying to perch on the wooden
door edge (where it meets a glass
Reminds of one here the last few days who has been probing the same 10
square feet of grass.
We had a handsome male Towhee here today double-clutching for hours to
move snow while seed searching.
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John and Sue Gregoire
5373 Fitzgerald Rd
Burdett, NY 14818-9626
"Conserve and Create Habitat"
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We have had White-throated Sparrows and Song Sparrows in our yard and
yesterday our first Chipping Sparrow of 2020 arrived. I will post some
photos on eBird.
Bill Roberts
Aurora
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I suppose EVERY cowbird now returning to the Northeast had foster parents!!
The ultimate case of "drop and run"
Sar
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I was having a cup of coffee looking out the window at 3 male and 3 female
cowbirds going at the sunflower seeds. As I watched them it dawned on me
that all of them were raised by foster parents!!!
According to the Lab of O:
"the cowbird does not depend exclusively on a single host species; it has
Cowbirds are crazier than you think…check out the research by Meredith West and
Andrew King on the role of female cowbirds (who don’t sing) in shaping the
development of juvenile males' song by using rapid wing gestures:
http://www.indiana.edu/~aviary/Research/female%20visual%20displays.pdf
