This observation is for the prey. This smallish alligator swam up with it already captured, tried for 20 minutes to toss it back, and in the end swam away with the duck still gripped in its jaws.
Crazy to see this little one in Altadena!
Observed this juvenile yellow crowned night heron foraging for crayfish. It found several.
My Yard in the City of Uvalde, Uvalde County Texas
Don’t fledge yet! It’s too soon!
A family picnic.
Note white throat and crown, dark eyestripe, yellow lores, and black malar stripe.
the first photo is of the 3 largest juveniles in this family. The second photo is of the smallest of the four juveniles.
Saw bird making changes to the bower, did not get any useful photos
Song Sparrow on post
Bird on the right. The left bird is a White-crowned Sparrow: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51429131
Is this a juvenile or a female spotted towhee?
babies! hatched from these eggs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48551098
white crown sparrows baby
Leucism influenced colour (or lack thereof) ID'd by multiple local birders
Danger High Voltage
3 juvenile RTHA close to the nest, and 1 adult in nest tree
Proud poppa taking care to feed his two youngsters. No birds were disturbed during this session - we were about 35 feet away inside our truck. The nest is located only about 6-8 feet away from a road and only about 3-4 feet above the ground (really risky in terms of predators, but it seems that cardinals/pyrrhuloxia are terrible about choosing nesting sites). Hopefully we will be able to continue to follow the nest through fledging.
The attached photo is of 4 Ash-throated Flycatcher nestlings. Notice how the nestlings blend into the nest's topping.
📸: By Lee Pauser
This observation was part of a nest box trail done in conjunction with the California Bluebird Recovery Program (CBRP), which runs the Cavity Nesters Recovery Program (CNRP). CNRP involves many volunteers across California who establish and monitor nest box trails for cavity-nesting birds. During the breeding season, these boxes are checked weekly for parasitism, predation, number of eggs, nestlings, and number of young fledged. Then at the end of the nesting season, volunteers submit their results to CBRP. We compile these results and submit them to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch program and other interested organizations.
The oldest is about 6 weeks old. They are so cute!!!
📸: By Lee Pauser
This observation was part of a nest box trail done in conjunction with the California Bluebird Recovery Program (CBRP), which runs the Cavity Nesters Recovery Program (CNRP). CNRP involves many volunteers across California who establish and monitor nest box trails for cavity-nesting birds. During the breeding season, these boxes are checked weekly for parasitism, predation, number of eggs, nestlings, and number of young fledged. Then at the end of the nesting season, volunteers submit their results to CBRP. We compile these results and submit them to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch program and other interested organizations.
On May 7th, two rescued Barn Owl owlets were renest into a nest box with one owlet. Since then one owlet has fledged leaving behind the two owlets in the photo.
The owlet on the left is a little terror as it always attacks my camera. To get video of the owlets I first dropped some thawed out mice in the box to distract them, and then inserted the camera. Note that eating the mice was more important than attacking the camera.
📸: By Lee Pauser
This observation was part of a nest box trail done in conjunction with the California Bluebird Recovery Program (CBRP), which runs the Cavity Nesters Recovery Program (CNRP). CNRP involves many volunteers across California who establish and monitor nest box trails for cavity-nesting birds. During the breeding season, these boxes are checked weekly for parasitism, predation, number of eggs, nestlings, and number of young fledged. Then at the end of the nesting season, volunteers submit their results to CBRP. We compile these results and submit them to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch program and other interested organizations.