Posted by Justin Miller on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
Same stuff up here in Boca Raton - lots of trees downed or badly stripped - many limbs, branches, and leaves ended up in my pool and all over my yard. I have several very tall and thick trees behind the wall at the back of my yard as well as my neighbor's yard that I know from past experience tends to attract lots of migrant birds, but making them almost impossible to see or find because the foliage is so thick they can hide. Now, those trees are extremely bare, and very exposed with much of the canopies stripped, and suddenly you can see almost all the way through, so while in my pool yesterday cleaning out all the debris, I was noticing the activity: blue jays, cardinals, doves, and grackles who are yard regulars were all out and about, plus BG gnatcatchers, American redstarts, prairie warbler, black and white warbler, parulas, and one hard-to-identify bird that I think might have been a female summer tanager - yellow to greenish in parts with a fairly thick looking bill.