Environment:
Start Time: 6:40 AM Temperature: 56 degrees Sky: Sunshine.
The tree cavity that I earlier this Spring thought was a Kestrel nest site but later decided wasn’t a Kestrel nest site due to lack of any type of activity proved this morning to actually be a Kestrel nest site. Today’s featured image is one of the adults posed just after delivering some grub (or maybe a Grub) to the nest’s occupant. Very exciting – I will try for some video soon. The other active nest (known to me) still has the young Red-tailed Hawk hanging out. Today it did not seem to be bigger. No Cooper’s Hawks to gossip about today. Pictured her is what I believe to be a juvenile Double Crested Cormorant being quite confident in its perch high over the Arkansas River. And another Osprey teased me with a dramatic display of hovering that resulted in nothing. At the very bottom of this post is one of the Red-tailed Hawk parents who flew by after loudly scolding me. Why the I got the tongue lashing, I do not know – I was not near the nest.
Sightings:
Birds: Mallards, Starlings, Ospreys, Canada Geese, Double Crested Cormorants, Mourning Doves, Red-tailed Hawks, American Robins, Western Kingbirds, Eastern Kingbirds, Barn Swallows, Swallows, Bullock’s Orioles, Common Grackles, Yellow-breasted Chat, Great Blue Heron, American Kestrels
Critters: Prairie Dog, Mule Deer, Cabbage White Butterflies, Tree Squirrel
Gear: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, Lumix 100-300mm
