FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Successful Hybrid Kingbird/Scissor-t Nestings in Memphis, TN

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

June 29-30, 2007
President's Island
North Memphis,
Shelby Co, TN
 
Last week, I found the hybrid female Scissor-tailed Flycatcher feeding only  
one youngster but suspected there might have been some hidden in a nearby 
tree.  This Friday, I found she had all four of her brood lined up on a chain 
link 
 fence and Saturday, she had moved them out of the industrial area and over 
to  the fields to the north. She is taking good care of them and feeding them 
all by  herself. I've posted photos of her and the youngsters at the last of 
this page:  _http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/sex_in_city&page=all_ 
(http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/sex_in_city&page=all) 
 
I've also posted the latest photos of the north Memphis hybrid young, being  
tended by Mom the hybrid and Dad a Western Kingbird. There is a second nest  
with another hybrid female mated with another Western Kingbird. These  photos 
are at the same site as above. I'm interested in seeing what these  birds will 
look like as these youngster's grandmother was a  hybrid???? 
 
Another Western Kingbird site, I found in between these two locations  
appears to have 3 pair nesting. Making four different nest sites inside the  
Memphis 
city limits.
 
Good Birding  !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.



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