1 June 2024
This week used to be “All Peregrines All The Time” with a notable exception.
On Memorial Day Charity Kheshgi and I sought after to peer a Kentucky warbler (Geothlypis formosa) so we went to Harrison Hills Park the place they breed. It didn’t take lengthy to listen to one making a song in an in depth thicket alongside the Pond Path however lets no longer see him. We waited patiently for him to seem.
What an elusive chook! We by no means noticed him fly from one finish of the thicket to the opposite regardless that he did it repeatedly. He even flew, unseen, over the path we have been status on. We will have to have waited part an hour prior to we were given a glimpse of him within the shadows.
After which he perched and sang (photograph at most sensible). Ta dah! A Lifestyles Chook Photograph for Charity.
We additionally noticed an japanese wood-pewee (Contopus virens) construction a nest.
She had already embellished the outside with lichen …
… and used to be now operating at the nest lining. She positioned subject matter within the cup and used her abdominal to shape the inner.
Her mate sang “Pee Wee” within the woods within reach.
Birds of the Global says the “feminine frequently provides a plaintive, two-noted wee-ooo when nest construction” however we didn’t pay attention that sound. She used to be busy.