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Posted by Paul-the-other on 21:25:10 07/23/06
While some mockingbirds are still feeding young at Hoechoka Hammock (North Broward) one pair has launched a second nest and the young just hatched.
Another note of interest; a white winged dove has built her sloppy nest on top of an old abandoned mockingbird nest in a gumbo limbo. Why not? I suppose.
A low number of crows this spring and early summer assures some success in the "baby boom". Last year the crows were about by the scores and raiding all of the nesting sites.
No killdeer nests this year because the sand fields are now grassed over for......fill in the blank. If you guessed soccer you be the winner.
Farm fields north of Parkland City Hall are flooded in preparation for the fall planting. Ibis, egrets and herons abound. But nothing unusual.
Nighthawks are very scarce this year.
Black vultures moving southward at high altitudes all day. Still no blue gray gnatcatchers here yet.
D.O.T. cut down the Australian Pines along the Sawgrass and off ramp at our location (University Drive). Progress demands a sound barrier wall. Well, the cormorants and anhingas used the trees to roost. Now some 45 strong they have moved on. Unfair to cormorants!
Another field note: I watched a white winged dove "working" a sun flower seed trying to crack it open. That was a first. Guess they get tired of millet?
Blue jay fledglings are about the same number as last year.
Mourning dove numbers are down. The high winds and severe rain of the last 30 days may have done in many of their flimsy nests.
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