[texbirds] Mississippi Kite Chick and Eastern Bluebirds 8/3/13
- From: DHanson139@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 22:41:57 -0400 (EDT)
This morning the Mississippi Kite Chick started it's day with some nice red
meat. I could not tell until I enlarged the photo what it was but in the
first picture if you enlarge it you will see it's a small rat of some
species. What you are looking at is the parent on the right and the chick with
it's back to you so you see the butt of the wing. Laying between them is the
dead rat.
Later this afternoon I spent quite a while trying to get photos of one of
the parents bringing food to the nest. Suddenly one of them came shooting
through the trees like a Wood Duck and lit almost right above me. It sat for
a short time and quickly went and dropped off the Dragonfly it had and left
again. Guess it was a fast food delivery.
Kite photos
http://smu.gs/14TDpUD
A little while later the Eastern Bluebird brood or broods started showing
up for water close to where we were standing so we added some Meal Worms and
watched a while. If we counted correctly there was about 12 of them. Looks
like maybe 2 broods. We were also joined by a single male Orchard Oriole.
Bluebird photos
http://smu.gs/11DVkS0
David and Jan Hanson
Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area
Chambers County
Galveston Bay Area Master Naturalist
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