Another video… note how the upper juvie decides to gnaw on a stick. These, too, are Mexican spotted owl(ets)…
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Kids are cute,too
Posted in Birds, wildlife biology, tagged fledglings, Mexican, owl, owlets, spotted on July 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When owls are in love…
Posted in Birds, wildlife biology, tagged allopreening, lucida, Mexican, occidentalis, owl, spotted, strix on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I thought i’d share this video i took today of two Mexican spotted owls (Strix occidentalis lucida)… they are, well, doing the owl equivalent of kissing, i suppose. Scientific folk call it allopreening. The male is on the right and the female to the left. As of today, they have two young owls out of [...]
Things start late here in the mountains
Posted in Birds, meanderings, wildlife biology, tagged Birds, junco, nests, owl, owlets, solitaire, spring, townsends on June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When you spend your work days in the woods, it’s nice every once in a while to slow down and -on your own time- walk wherever you want and at your own pace. It lets you notice more. And find nests. There was a junco in a currant bush giving quiet alarm calls as i [...]
A Day With Oliver Lee
Posted in Birds, Hikes, travel, tagged Birds, dog canyon, frenchy, hiking, new mexico, oliver lee, red-faced warbler, state park on April 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve seen a bit of the interior West lately. The middle of March found me finishing up wolverine work in the North Cascades of Washington state. By early April, I had performed the reverse-migration of driving south to the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico. To put it another way—I used to be 60 miles [...]
This is an amusing time of year if you have a bird feeder and some goldfinches around. With spring in the air, the birds are in the process of molting out of their winter plumage (aka basic) into breeding plumage (aka alternate). When you are a drab olive in the winter, and a bright, canary [...]
The season turns
Posted in Birds, tagged Birds, calls, great horned, hoot, hooting, horned, nest, owl, spring on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The mornings get more and more loud each day. In the underbrush, spurts and sputters of song occasionally give way to the recognizable trill of the junco. Finches whistle and slur away from treetops. Flocks of robins move through, and the sound of Canada geese echoes back from the river. In case the growing warmth [...]
Warning calls
Posted in Birds, thought of the day, tagged altruism, animal behavior, bird behavior, bird feeding, Birds, flocks, goldfinches, sunflower seeds on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve recently fortified the “wild bird” mix of seeds at the feeder (mostly millet) with a heavy dose of black oil sunflower seeds, and have been rewarded with an influx of bird life out the window. Within a few days, goldfinches began arriving, and now i can sometimes count 50 or so lingering around the [...]
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