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Posted by Bill Boeringer on 10:25:14 04/08/06
Things were fairly quiet at Barnes this morning, where I ran into Susanne and Gary from California, birding the area today before heading off to Trinidad.
I had 4 warblers (Palm, Prairie, B&W, Parula) and they had already seen N Waterthrush and Common Yellowthroat. 2 Orange-winged Parrots were noisy along Bird Rd., along with A Great Crested Flycatcher. In the Nature Center, Tufted Titmouse sang repeatedly, and a Cooper's Hawk was heard in the pines.
There were a few oddities in the Nature Center. A Green Heron was flushed from the trees, and an Eastern Screech Owl (looking bedraggled) was sitting on a broken palm frond right over the path (thanks, Gary, for keeping me from walking right into him!). Most unusual was a calling Red-tailed Hawk perched like a Cooper's in the trees, until hounded out by several Blue Jays.
Speaking of Blue Jays, when I left home this morning I watched a pair of Spot-breasted Oriole in my live oak, when one physically attacked a Blue Jay and drove it out of the tree. I'm used to seeing Blue Jays on the attack, not the other way around...
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