Territorial Crows

Crows were at the feeder this morning and were taking entire pieces of bread away. Later they were squawking loudly at a cat who had entered the “feeding area”. Two crows perch in the same tree nearly every day. I haven’t noticed the times of day and whether or not they were the same, however.

MaShell River Park, Eatonville, Washington

Birdnest bush

A birdnest was found under this bush at MaShell Park.

It had toppled out and landed upside down.

Crow harassment

Crow harassing Bald Eagle The video isn’t that great. The two birds are little specks on the screen, but the audio detailed another bird song that I would like to identify. This video link was posted to other Tweets, maybe they will id on the list or comment at the bucket.

Rose Bramble

Bumble bees were all around the bramble a few sunny days ago. They have since tamed.

Elusive tweet

I have been trying to photograph a particular bird that has been singing outside my window in the morning. He lights high in the pine tree and is so very small he is difficult to catch.

Pweet twit cheap. Peeroweet.

Hummingbird

Hummingbird passed through about the same time 7:30pm, but did not stop at the feeder last night. Instead he visited the rose bramble.

Birdstrikes

“Currently, the US civil aviation industry is not required to report birdstrikes, yet information on frequency, timing, and species involved, as well as the geographic origin of the birds, is critical to reducing the number of birdstrikes.” — marrap@si.edu http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/090066 accessed June 9, 2009 8:50AM

Wondering if avian radar has the ability to archive frequency and timing, if not species.

Robin

Watched a Robin feed its mate or its baby. The mate or baby was grey
w/black and white spotted and appeared to have its feathers fluffed
out and sitting quite still in the grass. The Robin would find food
in the grass and give it to the grey spotted one. The grey one did
not hop around at all, but did fly away eventually. They grey bird
had a totally different posture, shape, size and neck.

After looking at photographs of a thrush, the grey bird?, does look similiar.

Hummingbird and Shrike

An orange hummingbird flew down the tree line and disappeared for awhile, but came back to visit my feeder. I have a very small hummingbird feeder. It is so small that you wouldn’t think that it would attract any hummers. I’ve been patiently waiting for them this year and had prepped the bird feeder quite early. It was so early in fact that the food had nearly all blown or leaked out. There was a residual amount in the bottom of the feeder that was not even visable.

In the tall pines, a shrike visited yesterday.