10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
The Squirrel Cuckoo is the most common and widespread of all New World cuckoos. The Squirrel Cuckoo is more often seen as it flies from tree to tree or across a clearing in the forest. Many of the old world cuckoos are brood parasites, laying their eggs in other birds nest. Photo: Christoph Diewald (Flickr).
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2015
A pair of Williamson’s Sapsuckers ( Sphyrapicus thyroideus ) nesting in the same snag as a Douglas Squirrel! Note the baby squirrel sticking its head out at the top of this photo. Those concerns were quickly squelched as I watched the female sapsucker dive bomb that mama squirrel as it scurried down the snag and out of sight.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2023
This has obviously involved the active targeting of Moruga Grasshopper eggs and young, and an all-out attack involving chemical warfare. A Squirrel Cuckoo was also bounding along the branches with their smaller relative. A Squirrel Cuckoo batters a grasshopper high in the canopy. Naturally, I had to investigate.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2024
In the section on other animals which sometimes ends my posts, the mammal comparing favorably with Donald Trump today is some kind of squirrel. If this comparison bothers you, here’s something to comfort you (but not me): Donald Trump will be the next US president, the squirrel will not. A giant squirrel, actually.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
Baby Grey Squirrels in a shoebox wrapped in a dude’s old tighty-whities,” said Michelle Wellard. “No, Debbie Faires in South Carolina had a baby squirrel delivered in a mink hat. “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! No, I did not take a picture!”
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2013
Montana has four species of chipmunk and six species of ground squirrel. Ground squirrels, to those who are not used to them, are more curious beasts, caught in a taxonomic middle ground between the larger marmots and prairie dogs and their smaller chipmunk cousins. Mammals ground squirrels rodents'
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. And Brent was thrilled with a pair of Squirrel Cuckoos that perched near us. 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.
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