On the Saturday morning bird walk 27 birders watched a male and female Baltimore Oriole feeding their newly fledged chicks. Quite a sight to see the young birds in a crabapple tree as flashes of orange and yellow feathers quickly flew from branch to branch gathering worms, spiders and other insects to deposit into their gaping mouths.
On the other side of the garden a male and female House Wren were working equally as hard to feed their brood chirping from a nearby bird house. Chipping sparrows were chipping, Cardinals were calling, Red winged black birds were flashing their red epaulets in territorial defense, immature grackles were chasing their parents begging for food and warbling vireos were working the treetops gathering insects for their young. It was a very busy birding day! House Wren-2 Baltimore Oriole-3 Warbling Vireo-4 Hairy Woodpecker-1 Red bellied woodpecker-1 Northern flicker (heard) Catbird-4 Bluejay-2 Cardinal-2 Song Sparrow-2 Chipping Sparrow-5 Grackle-6 Red winged blackbird-4 Mallard-2 Cedar waxwing-7 American Goldfinch-1 Eastern Kingbird-2 Eastern Peewee-(heard) Mockingbird-1 American Crow-(heard) Chimney swift-2 Good birding, Debbie Becker BirdingAroundNYC.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
