Found sticking into an internal driveway.
Something that small I’d guess is a hummingbird nest.
-jsq
Found sticking into an internal driveway.
Something that small I’d guess is a hummingbird nest.
-jsq
These cattle egrets showed up as soon as I started mowing with the tractor.
Walking, flying, group, cattle egrets, OPF 2023-06-04
They followed me around, eventually getting within two feet of the tractor, jockeying to snatch up bugs.
This is the best writeup I’ve found on the origin of Bubulcus ibis, which it now lives on six continents and is sometimes found in Antarctica.
Judy Lehmberg, CBS News, June 15, 2017, Nature up close: Cattle egrets, masters of emigration, Continue reading
An early spring sight, and something more unusual.
Wood Storks and Wild Azalea, OPF 2023-01-31
We’re used to wild azaleas, Rhododendron canescens, blooming around now. Plenty of buds promise more flowers after this first one.
But the other sight was more unusual. Continue reading
A flock of split-tailed kites wheeling above where I just cultivated the okra.
Here’s a movie of these Elanoides forficatus, also known as swallow-tail kites: Continue reading
Nothing happens out our front door on a foggy morning except birds sing, owls hoot.
I heard a thwacking sound, looked up from the porch desk, and two pileated woodpeckers were on two, then one, pine tree.
Two pileated woodpeckers on a pine tree
The crosshatching is the porch screen wire.
These Dryocopus pileatus hang around here all the time, but they don’t usually come that close. That pine tree stob is about twenty feet outside the screen, or thirty (ten meters) from where I was sitting.
Eventually they flew off laughing, like they do.
Pileated woodpeckers mate for life, which would explain why this pair has been here a long time.
Don’t know if it’s always been the same pair, since we’ve been seeing them more than a decade, and apparently the oldest know was less than thirteen years old.
A pair of pileateds wants more than a hundred acres of territory, so they should be very happy here.
-jsq
What kind of bird makes these small nests?
Bigger than a hummingbird nest
They’re too big to be hummingbird nests.
Gretchen spotted them, one in the woods, the other at the pond.
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Red-shouldered hawks, split-tailed kites, and buzzards were riding the updrafts mid-day today.
You can also hear bluebirds and other birds keeping to the trees.
Here’s a video playlist. Continue reading
Dr. Claudia Dunkley, Extension Poultry Scientist,
will speak at
South Georgia Growing Local 2014
about
Basic information for beginning a backyard flock including: breeds, housing, nutrition, egg production and biosecurity.
Her conference bio: Continue reading