Posted by Bob Kelley on April 18, 2003 at 15:49:00:
In Reply to: Backyard birding posted by Felipe on April 18, 2003 at 12:46:33:
: I've been birding in my big backyard and I've seen two pairs of european starlings in my nest boxes. Theirs also one blue Jay nests and incubating their eggs. Also their is a mockingbird nest in the neighborhood. Their is two cardinal nests in the backyard. Common
When I started birdwatching 40 years ago in Ann Arbor, Michigan the call of the ovenbird would ring through the woods but we could never find one. We looked and looked with no luck.
Here in south Florida they are common fall and
spring migrants and many also overwinter. The amazing thing is how easy they are to see since they will walk across a path in front of you so close that you almost step on them. Matheson Hammock, the Charles Deering Estate, Gumbo Limbo Trail in ENP, the Brookfield Hammock on the Doc Thomas property, the Gifford Arboretum on the University of Miami campus.
They are one of my favorite birds, and I miss them during the summer. I have never heard them sing here in south Florida, but I have heard their
alarm calls on occasion.
Bob Kelley
grackles, cardinals, blue Jays, Mourning Doves and red-bellied woopeckers have been in birdfeeder. I saw about 4 worm-eating warbles and a remarkable Ovenbird. I'm 80% it was and Ovenbird. Is that bird common in Miami, florida. A Red-bellied woodpecker is building a hole in a snag for about a week. Great birding at the peak of Spring.