ML602070311
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Immature Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Feeding young; Flying
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Banded bird is a second-year female.
Observation details
One vocalized once near the northeast edge of the park, but I was unable to find it. It was possibly in the retention pond area north of the park. A banded bird perched on the wire briefly and then flew to a small cedar elm tree by the dam. (I later found an unoccupied nest in this tree, about 7’ high. Unknown if it was a shrike nest or not.). The bird then flew into a buttonbush, and I couldn’t refind it. Unfortunately, I was not able to conclusively determine the color of the bands on this bird. It was in the same area as the banded bird I found on 7/24/2023, https://ebird.org/checklist/S145708319. Later, a bird flew from the picnic area north across the soccer field and disappeared in trees on the other side of the road. Not sure if that was the banded bird or not. At 8:48a, the banded bird (Light Blue/Metal on the left leg; Dark Blue/Dark Green on the right leg) that I found earlier this morning was back on the dead trunk in the field on the west side of the park. At 8:51a, the immature flew in, begged, and fluttered wings. The banded bird fed it. About 8:53a, another bird flew nearby, and the banded bird flew toward it. The banded bird then perched on a short bush in the field. A short time later, the immature flew to the same bush with the banded bird. The banded bird dropped to the ground and then returned to the bush. The immature dropped to the ground a couple of times. Stopped observing at 9:02a. In a prior conversation with Tania Homayoun, PhD, Statewide Ornithologist TPWD, she listed a second-year female as the bird wearing the above described bands. It was banded on February 17, 2023. "She nested at the other end of the park on the edge of the soccer field in an Osage orange, but we’re not sure what the final fate of the nest was. Her mate was unbanded." During my observation, the bird was in the same general area of the Osage orange.
Technical information
- Camera
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 35.37 MB