Stoney Creek (Wintergreen) 6/23/12
All photos are © Marshall Faintich
Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawks have been visiting my back yard.
I assume that they are the hawks that had fledged from the nest in our yard.
Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk
Stoney Creek (Wintergreen) 6/23/12All photos are © Marshall FaintichJuvenile Red-shouldered Hawks have been visiting my back yard. |
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Rockfish Valley Trail 6/25/12All photos are © Marshall Faintich |
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It was hot, muggy, and buggy this morning, and with a forecast of scattered thunderstorms for this afternoon, I decided to stay close to home, and went over to the trail. The vegetation on the east side of Reids Creek that was clear cut last autumn and winter has grown back quite a bit, and birds were taking advantage of it. In a little less than 2 hours, I logged 32 species on the downstream and Glenthorne Loop trails, and then added a juvenile Downy Woodpecker on the upstream trail. Highlights included three warbler species and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. There were a number of immature birds that were in the process of getting their adult plumages.
On the downstream trail near its eastern end, there was a Louisiana Waterthrush foraging on the trail path in a shadowed area, and a Yellow Warbler and at least three American Redstarts were at the southern end of the Glenthorne Loop trail on the east side of Reids Creek. The Yellow-billed Cuckoo was nearby.
Louisiana Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Yellow Warbler
Immature male American Redstart
Immature male or female American Redstart
Immature male American Redstart
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
First summer male Orchard Oriole
Immature male Indigo Bunting
Adult male Indigo Bunting
Grasshopper Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Immature Red-winged Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbird going after an American Crow
Female Red-bellied Woodpecker
Juvenile Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
This morning's RV Trail list (33 species):
Northern Cardinal Carolina Wren American Goldfinch Indigo Bunting Eastern Phoebe Eastern Wood-Pewee Kingbird Blue Jay Grasshopper Sparrow Flicker Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Rock Pigeon Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Cowbird Red-winged Blackbird American Crow Belted Kingfisher Orchard Oriole Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Carolina Chickadee Yellow Warbler American Redstart Yellow-billed Cuckoo White-eyed Vireo Turkey Vulture Tree Swallow Barn Swallow |