The Brown Thrashers showed up today. I think my favorite bird. Bronze and white, sleek, and in control.
I've seen them dip their head and charge groups of grackles and red-wing blackbirds under the feeders.
Really cool birds.
Kirtland's warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii), also known as the jack pine warbler, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae), named after Jared P. Kirtland, an Ohio doctor and amateur naturalist. Nearly extinct just 50 years ago, it is well on its way to recovery. It requires large areas (> 160 acres) of dense young jack pine for its breeding habitat. This habitat was historically created by wildfire, but today is primarily created through the harvest of mature jack pine, and planting of jack pine seedlings.
Since the mid-19th century at least it has become a restricted-range endemic species. Almost the entire population spends the spring and summer in Southern Ontario or the northeastern Lower Peninsula of Michigan and winters in The Bahamas.
The Kirtland's Warblers will be returning soon.
Kirtland's warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii), also known as the jack pine warbler, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae), named after Jared P. Kirtland, an Ohio doctor and amateur naturalist. Nearly extinct just 50 years ago, it is well on its way to recovery. It requires large areas (> 160 acres) of dense young jack pine for its breeding habitat. This habitat was historically created by wildfire, but today is primarily created through the harvest of mature jack pine, and planting of jack pine seedlings.
Since the mid-19th century at least it has become a restricted-range endemic species. Almost the entire population spends the spring and summer in Southern Ontario or the northeastern Lower Peninsula of Michigan and winters in The Bahamas.
Winters in the Bahamas. Damn smart bird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland%27s_warbler
The Brown Thrasher was in a tree in the backyard singing yesterday while I worked in one of my flowerbeds.
What a wonderful serenade. If you've never heard one sing, you're missing out.
The Brown Thrasher was in a tree in the backyard singing yesterday while I worked in one of my flowerbeds.
What a wonderful serenade. If you've never heard one sing, you're missing out.
They do have quite the vocabulary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c10I62nX3T0