Our Backyard Birds in Summer
Recently Sanny Wroblewki and Whitney Redding sent me photos of some summer bird action on Add Drive.Whitney carefully got this shot of the new House Wren hatchlings sleeping in a stroller pocket. Soon...
View ArticleYellow-billed Cuckoo In Luria Park
Early this morning in hopes the humidity was less we headed out to see any fall migrating birds heading south. We spotted a Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the maple tree by the bridge in Luria Park.The...
View ArticleRed-breasted Nuthatch: Winter Visitor
This afternoon, October 13th, we saw for the first time in our yard, a Red-breasted Nuthatch. He was flitting around our half dead dogwood tree by the street. I managed to get one decent photo for you...
View ArticleRed-headed Woodpeckers in Luria Park
On the Raymondale side of Luria Park, to the left of the entrance, high on a tree snag is what we are pretty certain is a Red-headed Woodpecker nest cavity. Today we observed two RHWO in and around a...
View ArticleMore About Luria Park Red-headed Woodpeckers
Our Luria Park Red-headed Woodpeckers have attracted the attention of the local birding community. If you see folks in the park with binoculars you know why. And if you don't have a pair of binocs, you...
View ArticleMerlin in Luria Park
Late in the day on March 1st, we spied a slender silhouette darting above the tree tops like Top Gun fighter jet. The bird landed on a tall tree top to the north of the boardwalk in Luria Park and we...
View ArticleForgaing for Buggy Delights
I spent a good part of the afternoon on March 7th in Luria Park near the Raymondale entrance. A lot of leaf flipping on the forest floor caught my eye. A male Northern Flicker was exuberantly thrashing...
View ArticleNesting Season!
Dan, Lisa Byrd, and I walked Luria Park this afternoon and saw evidence of nesting!Here is a female Red-bellied Woodpecker excavating a nest cavity. We watched her tossing out beak-fulls of saw dust as...
View ArticleOh, Say Can You See...A Bald Eagle in Raymondale!
On Tuesday, April 4th at one in the afternoon Mary and Mike Cogbill on Add Drive got excellent views of a Bald Eagle perched about 35 feet up in a tree in their next door neighbor's yard. To Mary the...
View ArticleIn Our Yard: The Indigo Bunting
Welcome Spring and all of the birds migrating to and through our neighborhood!This afternoon, I happened to see a young male (and molting) Indigo Bunting in our pink dogwood tree. He foraged for...
View ArticleA Lot of Birding Going on In Luria Park
On Saturday morning, April 29th, Dan and I walked the boardwalk at Luria Park just off the footpath and up to the first (smaller) bridge. We didn't go much farther than that as we were content to...
View ArticleWarblers, a Rare Sighting, and Neighborhood Bird Walk
On Saturday, May 13th, despite the heavy cloud cover and occasional drizzle we found that warbler migration season is in full swing! Luria Park was packed full of these colorful wee migrants who most...
View ArticleIt's Fledgling Season!
On Wednesday, neighbor Tony Britton sent me photos of two fledgling American Crows. I have observed the adults earlier this spring carrying nesting material, just couldn't find the nest. So a big...
View ArticleRuby-throated Hummingbird: Fall Migration and Hurricanes
With September comes the ramping up of fall migration for neo-tropical songbirds. We have observed in our yard for over a week now, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds feeding aggressively form the cardinal...
View ArticleAn Unusual Sighting at Fairview Park Pond
This afternoon Whitney Redding sent me a message about a bird she saw at the small pond by the Fairview Park Marriott. She wanted to know what this sleek, hook-billed bird she saw was. She took a photo...
View ArticleSpring Is Finally Here
This morning, April 23rd, I birded Luria Park for about an hour. So happy to our spring birds have returned. Some may stay and some may go.The highlights included an Ovenbird foraging in the leaves. If...
View ArticleSpring Migration is in Full Swing!
Hello!Luria Park and our backyard on Brad Street have given us lots of spring/summer birds!The highlight was a Cape May Warbler seen at the Luria Park playground on May 2, about 9:30 oin the...
View ArticleMay 6 Was Migratory Bird Mania In Luria Park
Dan and I spent two hours in Luria Park around lunch time today (May 6th) and were rewarded with lots of migratory birds! The recent cold front most likely brought them in and we were thrilled to see...
View ArticleThe Bay-breasted Warbler
This morning in Luria Park I saw the Bay-breasted Warbler which is an uncommon warbler. He winters in northern South America, flies along the eastern Central American and Mexican coast, goes up the US...
View ArticleFun Around the Neighborhood Ponds
This afternoon, Dan and I were alerted to an unusual bird at the pond next to Jaguar rail. We headed over and found a Black-crowned Night Heron!This cool bird winters along the southern Atlantic coast...
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