{BIRD NOTES} July 27, 2011
Baby Moose © Sandy Merritt and Green Heron © Hilke Breder
Bird Notes
A Small Grey Bird
On Monday midday I returned home and went into my garage to find a small bird trying to get out via a closed window (we have 2 bays in the garage and one was open but the birds often get disoriented and need some encouragement to go the right way). I tried to get it to fly out the door but was not succeeding, so I got a long stick and came close without touching the bird. The bird then flew diagonally across the garage and suddenly was suspended mid-air upside down. I watched in amazement realizing it was caught in a spider web. When it could not free itself I again used my long stick and gently prodded it and out it flew to freedom. In my concern for the bird I never did try to identify it, but the feathers looked kind of downy so it might have been recently fledged, just a grey small bird.
---Carol Schnabel,
Field Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
Bluebird
Solitary Vireo
Black-capped Chickadee
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Goldfinch
Cardinal
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Robin
Tufted Titmouse
Raven
Veery
Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Kingfisher
Cedar Waxwing
Blue Jay
Morning Dove
Grackle
Redwing Blackbird
Canada Goose
Chimney Swift
Turkey Vulture
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Downy Woodpecker
Purple Finch
Red-eyed Vireo
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
White-breasted Nuthatch
Eastern Phoebe
Crow
Baby Bullwinkle (See attachment)
I just received this photo of a moose calf standing in my sister’s backyard in
Allen Brothers Pond
A couple of days ago I watched a Green Heron hunting in the Allen Brothers marsh. He was fairly close to the road, just barely within reach of the lens on my camera. http://onejackdawbirding.blogspot.com/2011/07/green-heron-hunting.html
---Hilke Breder,
Birding Around
Tom and I are just back from spending several days in the Adirondacks, and were truly amazed at the diversity of bird life in the
-Hundreds of double-crested cormorants, noted as "pests" there for depleting the rock bass and other fish populations
-Common loon(sited several "moms", all with one or two chicks)
-Hooded merganser (with 6 chicks)
-Common merganser
-Black duck (with 7 chicks)
-Mallard duck
-Belted kingfisher
-Herring gull
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-Common tern
-Osprey
-Great blue heron
-Fish Crow
-American Crow
-Northern Raven
-Eastern kingbird
-Myrtle warbler
-Yellow warbler
-Goldfinch
-Cedar waxwings - everywhere!
-Downy woodpecker
-Hairy woodpecker
-Eastern phoebe
-Tree swallow
-Cliff swallow
-Barn swallow
-Veery
-Wood thrush
-Black-capped chickadee
-Red-eyed vireo
-Chipping sparrow
-Song sparrow (who serenaded us cabin-side constantly!)
-Cardinal
-White-breasted nuthatch
-House wren
-Tufted titmouse
-Eastern bluebird
-Turkey vulture
-Red-tailed hawk
-Sharp-shinned hawk
-American kestrel
Great birding without really trying - hope everyone is having a great summer!
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FYI
From time to time we receive requests for information regarding banded birds. Here is how you should go about it.
If you can read the letters/numbers on a band, write it down, and contact the Bird Banding Laboratory. You will be told the date, species, bander’s name and banding location.
Contact information for the BBL is:
www.reportband.gov
or 1-800-327-BAND
or Bird Banding Laboratory
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Please share your birding news with us.
What have you got coming to your feeders?
Are there any birds nesting in your yard?
What have you seen while on a trip?
Drop us an e-mail chpmnkx@sover.net
Al Merritt
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