Herons & Egrets Feeding Behaviors
Finally, here are a couple of interesting feeding behaviors by Cattle and Snowy. (Cattle video is pretty dis-focused).
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Interesting night on 9/18 for the night flight calls people back east (below from NFC listserv): “I’ve been listening live in Etna, NY tonight since 10:30pm. This has been an epic migration night here and one of the more constantly vocal in recent memory. Literally thousands and thousands of calls. Nearly constant calls of warblers,…
Sandhills
600 and counting !!
Warbler Butts
Thanks to my buddy Eric who found some warbler butts before I could!! The following and more can be found at the website for The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle. This is an excellent and innovative book!!
Mr Cooper
Here’s a courtship or territorial display of the Cooper’s Hawk. He climbed higher and higher and spread white feathers at the base of the tail, then very deliberately flapped wings up all the way , then all the way down. Cool sight to see!! LE Woods picnic grounds, Davis Mountains, 3/17/25.
Empids by Dennis
Here’s a couple of very nice pix by Dennis Palafox taken at the coast recently.
Starlings
These guys are pests to native species, but there is some interesting plumage this time of year.