Texbirders,
on our way home we made a short mid afternoon stop at Devers Creek Park and
were immediately rewarded with the presence of 4-5 Swallow-tailed Kites. Two of
them were engaged in some fancy synchronized flight display similar to what I
see regularly from terns during courtship time. A little later the same two (I
believe) were observed carrying sticks and Spanish moss to a tree where they
had already begun building a nest from scratch. The Mississippi Kites that
nested last year in the same general area had not yet arrived but Northern
Parulas were singing from the mossy oaks.
I added a few photos to my identical facebook Texbirds post.
Petra Hockey
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