Hi all, I know this is outside our territory but a friend shared this page with me and I thought it was too good to keep to myself. Last month, there was a huge fallout of birds following a cold front on the coast of Texas. People put out mealworms, seed and oranges for the exhausted birds at one location and filmed and photographed them. The photos are amazing - it is a visual feast of migrants - a Hooded Warbler on someone's shoe.... 15 male Indigo Buntings in a little group on the ground (joined by several females and three Painted Buntings).... Cerulean Warblers... half a dozen Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks all together... Orioles by the bucketful... too many other birds to describe....
There are two videos, be sure to click on HD for the scond one (and make it full screen!). At the very bottom of the page is a link to a list of birds seen with more photo-documentation. On that page is a description of the events of that day, and the days following, plus links to other photographers' pages. Rob Becker's photographs are stupendous... the birds are unbelievably close. Prepare to be amazed! http://www.texasbirdimages.com/home/2013-fallout---cameron-county Enjoy! Cindy Wodinsky Cedarhurst, LI p.s. Oh, and I did want to say that the Yellow-Crowned Night Herons have returned to Linwood Ave. in Cedarhurst. Any nests that survived Sandy are already occupied, with other birds building new nests. The nest-building is quite a laborious process. I was witness to one pair's laying down of the first twig. The female waits at the chosen spot while the male goes scavanging for an appropriate twig which he breaks off from a branch (often with difficulty). He takes the twig back to his mate who takes it from him and lays it down just so.... adjusting as necessary.... (sometimes the twig falls to the ground and they have to start all over). This is followed by mutual preening, displaying and a long rest before the male goes off in search of the next twig. -- 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/ --
