Carolina Wren
Carolina Wrens are small birds with an incredibly loud call and song. On Thursday, a pair was foraging for insects around the wood piles of the Compost Heap. Seeing or hearing one of these birds always brings a smile to my face!
Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Red-tailed Hawk Mixes Things Up
Tonight started as a fairly standard night. Flaco flew out of his roost and headed for the constructions site. He made two stops before he was interrupted by Red-tailed Hawk, who chased after him briefly. Flaco ended up hooting from a tree up on the ridge trail before flying to the tree he hooted from last night. Late in the evening he flew out of the tree and we couldn’t relocate him.
Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Same Tree, New Perch
I arrived around 9 pm, to find Flaco hooting from a tree along the East Drive. It took me about fifteen minutes to find where in the tree however. He was using two new perches that required me to find just the right angle to see him. After about thirty minutes, he went to a favorite tree in the compost area of the park. For about ten minutes he was lit up by the blinking taillights of a park truck unloading trash. After the truck left, he took off and I couldn’t find him, so I called it a night.
Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Same Old, Same Old
Tonight, was like many nights recently. A nice calm fly out, a visit to construction and then an extended stop at Nutter’s Battery hooting. Unlike previous nights, I did get to see Flaco early enough that I got to see his full visit to the construction site.
Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Construction, Hooting, Compost, Hooting
Sunday night, I arrived after fly out to find Flaco inside the unfinished building at the Meer. He was in the northern section, but flew out quickly. He hooted briefly from Nutter’s Battery, but then made a pass around the construction site. We went looking for him but couldn’t find him and returned to the construction site. I decided to make one last look for him, and found him in one of his favorite trees. He stayed there but after about an hour I lost him. A park truck came with recyclables and that flushed him from near where he had been perching. He then flew to the safety of one of the Black Locusts, sneezed a few times and then hooted. By that time, it was almost midnight, so I went home.
Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Hooting Until 11
On Saturday Night, I arrived late in the evening to find Flaco hooting in a tree near Nuttery’s Battery. He hooted and hooted with only short breaks until 11 pm. He flew off and I only saw him again for a few seconds in the Meer construction site.
