[nnasnet] A Natural Drama
- From: "joandboys" <joandboys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "nnasnet" <nnasnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 21:25:19 GMT
Hi,
While walking one of my dogs in the back field, a bird ruckus erupted from
a magnolia tree, and I looked around to see what appeared to be two cardinals,
male and female, attacking a much larger blue jay...then I realized the jay was
after a tiny baby cardinal cowering in the grass, and the cardinal parents were
holding it off just like Pongo and Perdita in 101 Dalmatians. I ran screaming
like a banshee at the blue jay ( scaring it and the dog half to death), then
managed to shoo the fledgling into a forsythia thicket some distance away.
Whew! I understand Natural Selection but I don't care to witness it.
On a calmer note, the Little Meadow Trail at Stratford Hall was simply
brimming with thrushes during a recent hike, both hermit and wood, and I also
spied a Connecticut warbler (I think), a first for me...its gray hood and
greenish feathers were clearly seen as it fed upside down in a shrub. At home,
"our" brown thrashers managed to fledge at least one baby, a robin in a tulip
poplar and a mockingbird in a dogwood are incubating on nests within whispering
distance of each other (might be a problem later), there are four eggs in the
wrens' nest in the gazebo, and a male hummingbird has finally arrived at the
feeder.
Joanne C.
Wicomico Church
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