ML617483977
Contributor
David Brinkman Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Miami Whitewater Forest--Bowles Woods and Tallgrass Prairie Trail
Hamilton, Ohio, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Foraging or eating; Nest building
- Tags
- Nest
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Female tidying and rearranging sticks in nest. Male comes along and feeds her an invertebrate then flies off, whereupon she resumes tidying. A Scarlet Tanager is heard singing in the background.
Observation details
Courtship flocks. Soft calls of female possibly looking for a nest site. Eventually found a nest under construction further along the trail. Both birds building an tidying up. While female was rearranging sticks, male came and fed her an invertebrate. This was caught on video. Nest is in mid-canopy of a tulip poplar.
Additional species
Technical information
- Camera
- Canon SX70 PowerShot
- Microphone
- built-in
- Accessories
- Tripod
- Original file size
- 238.59 MB