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Bill Johnson detected up to three birds yesterday, and talked to neighbors who said they’d been regularly detecting them. Today, we saw at least two individuals interacting. At least one adult, at least one potential first-year, or perhaps second-year, bird. When I first approached in car I heard begging/calling behavior. By the time I turned around and got out of my car and got my binoculars all was quiet. By scanning around I was able to find a bird halfway up a Douglasfir, it had a prey item and was eating it. It appeared to be clumsy while eating the prey item, walking along the branch (flapping/loosing it's balance several times), and then flying around to several perches (and seeming to have weaker and less-direct flight than a typical adult). My thought is that this bird had been begging/harassing and calling out as I arrived and then was delivered prey (that I missed). A short while later I saw a second bird and after some vocal interactions and a brief, mildly harassing visit by the first bird the second bird flew off to the north. It returned about 25 minutes later with prey which it did not appear to immediately deliver to the (presumably) young bird, as it landed ~20 feet lower in the tree than the first bird, and on a different branch. However a bit later the (presumably) young bird had apparently found it and was eating. Later, an apparent adult bird flew in, landed and moved about some dense Douglas fir limbs a bit lower down (~20 feet from ground), and then moved across the street and consumed a prey item within 15 meters of us (these are the photo series). It’s possible that there were two adults and one young bird, it’s also possible that what I am thinking is a young bird is a second-year bird and a female, and was harassing the male to bring her food. My sense was that the bird that was hanging around the ~1acre area was being fed by one or more adults, and that the adult bird may have salvaged the prey item it had given earlier to the other bird. Many vocal interactions when a bird would fly in to the area.
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone 11, using the Merlin app to record, And then transferred to Voice Record Pro two managed to file.
- Microphone
- And then transferred to Voice Record Pro to manage file.
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- Original file size
- 5.12 MB