Perhaps this explains their frequent presence in dusty dry rice fields during
harvest when no other rail species are present . Just them and the sparrows.
Fred Collins, Director
Kleb Woods Nature Center
20303 Draper Road,Tomball TX 77377
281-357-5324
Harris County Precinct 3
Steve Radack Commissioner
www.pct3.hctx.net
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From: texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Brush Freeman
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:45 AM
To: Rex Stanford
Cc: Clay Taylor; texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [texbirds] Re: Seed eating Sora
Well that makes sense to me, Just to clarify, the bird is not at my
feeders though, the photo was taken by a friend of ours in Port O'Connor.
I have not seen it but Petra Hockey has. I would love to have a Sora join the
cardinals at my feeders.
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Brush Freeman
503-551-5150 Cell
120 N. Red Bud Trail. Elgin, Tx. 78621
http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Rex Stanford <calidris.bairdii@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Clay's thought was mine, too, until, as a check on that supposition, I
read Kenn Kaufman's discussion of Sora (specifically, that species'
diet) in his "Lives of North American Birds" (Houghton Mifflin, ,
1966, p. 168), which notes three major foods of Sora--seeds, insects,
and snails--and, further, that at certain seasons their main food is
seeds (and mentioned what may be some of their major sources of seed
in marshes). Pondering this, the heavy, thick bill of Sora looks like
it should be a effective seed cruncher. If their usual feeding habitat
should be flooded or come dry, perhaps the Sora might wander to places such
as Brush's seed feeder.
Rex Stanford
Weslaco, TX
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Clay Taylor <
Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All -
Maybe picking out bugs amongst the seeds?
Clay Taylor
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 13, 2015, at 11:11 PM, Brush Freemanwrote:
<brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
yet,
.
I was telling Petra about my wonderful property Sora cat and I had
this morning. And she said that a friend of ours took a photo of
one in Port O'Connor eating bird seed under a feeder. I have not
seen the photo
but I have never heard of such a thing ...ever.permission
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Brush Freeman
503-551-5150 Cell
120 N. Red Bud Trail. Elgin, Tx. 78621
http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
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