Our resident great horned owl had two owlets this year and was faced raising them as a single mother. Her mate, Junior, and Rose, the Red tailed hawk, both went missing at the same time a few months ago. Perhaps they had a final deadly altercation after numerous confrontations. No one knows for sure. It was odd that they both vanished in early winter. But, I am happy to say, the owlets have fledged and were observed on today's walk.
In addition, we have a wood duck who has nested in a tree above the water. Quite a sight seeing wood ducks in a tree hole. A regular nesting site for them - but may be a first - at the Garden. There were 58 birders on my walk today and although we had a large crowd we all were treated to great sightings of: PRAIRIE WARBLER-1 Black & White-2 Pine-10 Palm-3 Yellow rumped-many Blue headed vireo-1 Ruby crowned kinglet-2 White breasted nuthatch-2 Chickadee-1 Belted kingfisher-1 Northern flicker-5 Red bellied woodpecker-3 Downy woodpecker-1 Northern cardinal-4 Blue jay-3 Mockingbird-1 PURPLE FINCH-1 American goldfinch-3 House finch-1 MERLIN-1 Red tailed hawk-2 White throated sparrow-3 Chipping sparrow-3 Swamp sparrow-1 Song sparrow-2 Brown headed cowbird-2 Mallard-3 Canada goose-4 Wood duck-7 Mourning Dove-1 Chimney Swifts-12 Tree swallow-1 Rough winged swallow-2 Barn Swallow-1 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/[email protected]/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/ --
