Posted by Paul on March 04, 2003 at 11:17:46:
In Reply to: Re: Sign of Migration---My Gnatcatchers are Gone! posted by Nancy Freedman on March 04, 2003 at 09:16:03:
Scores of gnatcatchers passing through North Broward. Also flocks of cedar waxwings at higher altitude than past years. A few straggler robins still getting drunk of Brazilian pepper. Mockingbirds are nest building and loggerhead shrikes are very territorial. Brown thrashers very absent and those seen sing very little. Yet catbird numbers are greater than past three years. Several redshouldered hawks about, and, the fish ravens and crows are lingering. In our area they devastate the early nests, especially mockingbirds. Also now seen in unusual numbers in Ficus Benjamina are white ibis. Could they adapt to this tree which resembles buttonwood and mangrove at the top, and nest build there?