Failed to mention that I have contacted Mrs. Aguilar, the scout's
mother, to commend her son for his project & hard work but also to point
out a glaring error on the sign/kiosk. He has the picture of a Green
heron listed as a Pileated woodpecker. :-(
Hopefully he can correct that ASAP.
Only
I found two Prothonotary Warblers (one bringing insects to young in a tree
cavity and one foraging about a quarter-mile to the west) while paddling the
Clyde River at Mays Point, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Six Bald Eagles
were there too. I was in the original Clyde River channel, not
Four bluebirds hatched on 4 July, as expected. By early a.m. 5 July, &
since then, temps have been in the mid-90s in the shade so surely inside
the bird box on the clothesline arm had to be hotter. Years ago, under
the same circumstances, I had successfully put an old umbrella over the
box to
