[bcbirdclub] Re: Barred Owl,Red-shouldered Hawk Chicks and Indigo Bunting

  • From: "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rainbrk@xxxxxxxxxx>, "BCBC Listserve" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:30:19 -0400

Thanks Dave,

Roger Mayhorn

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David and Susan Raines 
  To: rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx ; BCBC Listserve 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 5:11 PM
  Subject: [bcbirdclub] Re: Barred Owl,Red-shouldered Hawk Chicks and Indigo 
Bunting


  Great shot of the Red-shouldered young. It's not often you get a chance for a 
shot that good without climbing a tree! 
  DaveR/Breaks
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Roger Mayhorn 
    To: BCBC Listserve 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:12 AM
    Subject: [bcbirdclub] Barred Owl,Red-shouldered Hawk Chicks and Indigo 
Bunting


    I keep a baby monitor transmitter outside (sealed in a plastic bag) so I 
can listen to the birds inside without having to open a window, door, etc. 
Sometime late night before last I heard the repeated screech-like call of a 
young Barred Owl. It was shortly followed by the call of an adult Barred.

    While the parent hawks were away hunting, I took the opportunity yesterday 
morning to take a quick look at the young Red-shouldered Hawk chicks down in 
the woods in a large Beech tree.
    I had seen one chick before from a distance, but today I could see three. 
Here is a photo I was able to manage through the quickly growing foliage. One 
chick is hidden from view on the right.



    Another Indigo Bunting showed up at our feeders yesterday, but this male 
was still in his winter plumage. He had not yet changed from his winter mix of 
brown and blue to his all blue breeding season (get the girls) color.



    Roger Mayhorn
    Compton Mt

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