Urling and I just came back from atlasing three blocks between Limon and
Flagler, with some satisfying confirmations.
Dickcissel: We heard a Dickcissel singing (from a large patch of sweet white
clover), then stop and fly into the plants. It returned to the perch -- with a
medium-sized yellowish caterpillar in its beak. Then flew down into the clover
and disappeared. A few minutes later, it resumed singing from the same perch,
and then a fledgling Dickcissel perched just below it.
Moral: Dickcissels must sing throughout their breeding season, even when
feeding young out of the nest. So keep watching those songsters.
Loggerhead Shrike: We saw an adult on a fence line in front of set of likely
nest trees. Urling started walking down the fence line and heard the
unmistakeable sound of a youngster getting fed. Finally she spotted one, then
two, fledgling shrikes, very recently out of the nest: yellow gape that
extended all the way back to the eye, and mini-tails. It surprised us to see
such recently-fledged youngsters at the end of July.
Hugh Kingery
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