It was a cool, drizzly morning with the temperature in the 60’s. Our group was small this morning with Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (who was kind enough to eBird), Ellen Tipping, Jim Kendall, and Rick Shearer. We were expecting a nice spring count of birds but the cold, wet weather, kept the variety and numbers [...]
Orange-crowned Warblers are small, active song birds characterized by their rapid flitting movement through foliage and their memorable songs in springtime. The sprightly, diminutive Orange-crowned Warbler is a subdued yellow with the added surprise of orange feathers occasionally flashed on its crown when surprised or agitated. While many more strikingly colored warblers briefly migrate through [...]
It was a cool, calm, and overcast day with the temperature in the 60’s. Our group was small this morning with Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (who was kind enough to eBird), Ellen Tipping, Jim Stacy, Nancy Kappelmann, and Rick Shearer. The House Wrens were numerous and singing up a storm with one seen carrying nesting [...]
The American Kestrel is our smallest, most abundant, and most vibrantly colorful Falcon. You‘ll notice our pair of year-round resident Kestrels perched on posts in the hilltop preserved Raptor Foraging Area, surveying the field for grasshoppers, lizards, and small rodents comprising their customary prey. The more colorful male has a solid rusty back & tail [...]
It was a beautiful, clear, calm, and sunny day. Temperatures ranged from low 50s to mid 60s. Surveyors were Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne, Dave and Sharon Telford, Jim Kendall, Jim Currie, Ellen Tipping, Clair Grozinger, Nancy Kapplemann, Maureen Myers, and Rick Shearer. Eleven of us started out together and split up at times to survey [...]
