Barn Swallows return! The diving and darting Barn Swallows overhead have returned to Orange County to breed after spending the winter in the tropics. Watch for their long streaming tail and rusty-orange breast and throat as they devour 60 insects per hour on the wing. The Barn Swallow is a long slender swallow with glittering [...]
Monthly Urban Forest bird survey. Variably cloudy and sunny skies with mid 60’s temperatures and light breezes gave a perfect opportunity for spring birding and a chance to check out the carefully tended nest boxes strategically placed throughout the expansive terrain. Spring migration brought a number of species that will move through the area fairly [...]
Monthly Urban Forest bird survey. Variably cloudy and sunny skies with mid 60’s temperatures and light breezes gave a perfect opportunity for early spring birding and a chance to check out the carefully tended nest boxes strategically placed throughout the expansive terrain.James Kendall (scope&camera), Brian Bleecker (scope&camera), Tonya Fannon (camera), Alex Curiel (camera), Dave Telford [...]
Red-Winged Blackbird The Red-winged Blackbird is a common spring & summer breeding bird in Huntington Central Park favoring the dense reedy edges of Lake Huntington, Talbert Lake and Blackbird Pond where boisterous males atop cattails and bulrushes vigorously defend breeding territories with their trademark vocalization, a loud, ringing conk-la-REE!! that culminates in an intimidating trill. Male Red-winged [...]
Morning fog gave way to sunny skies with temps 58-70 degrees. Spring birdsong was in the air along with evident nest building, pair bonding, and courtship behavior [...]
