article thumbnail

You Work with What You’ve Got

10,000 Birds

And two Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls toot-toot-tooted from the brush. There is also a family of Barn Owls on the premises, and I have briefly seen the largest of them (enormous!) That’s a Melodious Blackbird in the background. A Roadside Hawk perched on a post next to, of course, a road. flying by at night.

Barn Owls 222
article thumbnail

Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

10,000 Birds

Yellow-headed Blackbirds singing in the reeds allowed us to get an arm’s length away. I’ve never been on an “owl prowl” before, and was thrilled that the one we joined turned up the promised quarry, and then some. Great Horned Owl babies peering out from their nest! Barn Owl babies peering out from their box!

Nevada 182
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bobolink Saison

10,000 Birds

For many grassland species, our vast expanses of tilled and plowed fields, orchards and vineyards, pastures and rangeland offer an abundance of convenient food and shelter – and some bolder birds even wander indoors to find these things in our barns and stables.

Vermont 121
article thumbnail

Collaborative list – June 2019

10,000 Birds

Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Brewer’s Blackbird – Euphagus cyanocephalus. European Starling – Sturnus vulgaris. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. 01 Jun 2019.

2019 122
article thumbnail

Collaborative list – August 2018

10,000 Birds

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives. Rusty Blackbird – Euphagus carolinus. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Bravo if you have.

2018 100