Feeding Wild Birds

[OneMountainAcres]

I checked on the phoebe nest today. They have newly hatched babies! No mites in the nest so mom and dad must've just been out celebrating and hunting for their new babies.

 

[sourland]

Checked the Phoebe nest at the club 0 - 4 eggs and no parasitization by cowbirds.

 

[TwoCrows]

The Ash-throated Flycatcher babies are 9 or 10 days old. This box is going to be stuffed full pretty soon!

 

[swampfox440]

I was looking at the wrens nest and noticed that the young were fledging! one after another they popped out of the box and landed in the nearby brush then a few went back in. Oh! how cute they were!

 

[TwoCrows]

June 18th...

June 29th, these 5 Ash-throated Flycatcher babies fledged the nest box today! I hear the parents out back now working to get them all together. I have monitored, Bewick's Wrens, Western Bluebirds and Juniper Titmice at my nest boxes. Bluebirds can be a bit lax with poop clean up, Wrens are a bit better than Bluebirds, the Titmice are extremely meticulous and barely any poop is left in the box after babies fledge. But this is ridiculous, what a mess!! I never saw the mom or dad removing poop from this box...

 

[sourland]

Phoebes have hatched, and parents are feverishly feeding them. Saw a Scarlet Tanager yesterday = first I have seen in several years. Also haven't seen an Indigio Bunting in years.

 

[sourland]

Phoebes fledged on Thursday. Yesterday porch was swarming with mites. Pyrethrin spray seems to have eliminated them. So far this year there are no swallowtail butterflies.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Phoebes fledged on Thursday. Yesterday porch was swarming with mites. Pyrethrin spray seems to have eliminated them. So far this year there are no swallowtail butterflies.

They're all in Virginia!

 

[sourland]

'Butterfly counters' were at the beagle club this morning. Total count was down 50% from last year and several species were not observed.

 

[R2elk]

Finished mowing the field Thursday.. Must have wiped out a meadowlark nest because a fledgling kept moving farther into the unmowed part until it ran out of tall grass to hide in. Once I was done, the mother came back to collect it.

I also had found a Mourning Dove nest. It obviously hatched as I saw at least one youngster with the adult while mowing.