[va-richmond-general] Re: Blackpolls/Worm-eaters and winter hold-overs in Chester: 3 May 2009

Here is my chickadees' nestlings. They are starting to look like adult
birds. The parents are starting to become aggressive. They don't want any
red-bellied woodpecker to get anywhere near their nestlings, and so they
come out to harass the bigger bird when he comes to our yard to feed on the
suet.

 

I also now believe that the martin house in my yard is now home to a nest of
Great Crested Flycatchers. I had never seen these birds before. There are
two adults that frequent this house.

 

So now I have flycatchers in the martin house and chickadees in the Ukrops
birdhouse.

 

Jim Blowers

 

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Got rained out of banding today...but a light mist is my favorite day to be
in the garden to pull weeds and plant. It's hard to garden though with
binoculars around your neck-but the bird song was incredible. Here's some
highlights from our little yard in Chester and the wetland behind.

 

Red-shouldered Hawk

Ring-billed Gull

Greater Yellowlegs

Solitary Sandpiper

Wood Duck

Green Heron

Great-crested Flycatcher

 

Yellow warbler

Northern Parula

Blackpoll warbler

Worm-eating warbler

Yellow-throated warbler

American Redstart

 

Black-throated Blue warbler

Prairie warbler

Blue-grey Gnatcatcher

Grey Catbird

Chimney Swift

Wood thrush

 

Cedar waxwing

Pine siskin

White-throated sparrow

Brown-headed Nuthatch

American Robin (fledglings)

Eastern Bluebird

Carolina Chickadee (nestlings)

 

Have a good week,

JulieK

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