10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2023
The northern half of the lake added Corn Bunting , European Turtle Dove , Dalmatian Pelican , Purple Heron , Eurasian Hobby , Eurasian Golden Oriole , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , and only the first of the several Masked Shrikes of the tour (cover photo by Kostas Papadopoulos).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. Project FeederWatch data prove that woodpeckers are at the top of the backyard bird feeder pecking order. contemplating the pretty blue eggs are American Robins are soon to lay is a good coping strategy.).
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10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2023
And for the first time, I saw a Bronzed Cowbird (which lays its eggs in other birds’ nests) checking out one of these nests. I told him that occasionally, with luck, I might hear a Laughing Falcon there. I know this photo isn’t very helpful, but there are four Motmots in that one tree. The scene of the crime, as it were.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2014
Now we gamble again (literally as well as figuratively – there’s a split-pot prize for predicting the dates of arrival, egg-laying, and other major events) on the hope that they will lay viable eggs and successfully rear young. The many eyes on this particular citizen-science prize have also yeilded other results as well.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Peregrine Falcon nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.)
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Current well-intentioned environmental pressures to emphasize harvesting large dead or dying trees, if realized, would have further adverse effects on such ecologically and esthetically important species as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, nuthatches, and owls – to name a few 1.”
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2019
Black-cheeked Woodpecker – Melanerpes pucherani. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.
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