FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Dot meadow & edge nesting activity

["lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm reasonably sure that a  pair of Blue Grosbeaks have a nest in a ragweed 
patch beside some of my hay rolls and have young that have hatched in the last 
couple of days. The reason I'm so sure is because I spent some time loitering 
in the area Sunday morning trying to discover the identity of a sparrow I had 
recently flushed from the meadow near the hay rolls with the tractor. The 
sparrow turned out to be a Song Sparrow with a nest between 2 hay rolls, but no 
Grosbeaks were seen that day, although a male was singing from a tree some 
distance off. Today both parents perched close by and the female held a bug in 
her beak waiting for me to leave. She must have been still sitting on her eggs 
the other day or I would have seen her then. The Dickcissels exhibit similar 
behavior along a certain strip of the pathway through the back meadow. 
Frank Lyne  frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County
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