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a very birdy morning 2003-04-09 - 11:35 a.m. An early morning visit from 7-9 P.M. at Fontainebleau State Park. The weather was unusually cold for this time of year and rather breezy. There were lots of somehow hidden birds loudly singing and lots of "unidentifieds," including a small flock of ducks, several warblers (one of which may have had yellow on its head), and a completely unidentified LBJ* that didn't seem to be a warbler but didn't seem to be anything else I could think of at that moment. Notables: The surprisingly noisy copulation of the Boat-Tailed Grackle. Fortunately, the female was already crouched and ready, with lifted tail, when he stopped talking and started doing, because he managed to stay aboard an astoundingly brief period of time. I checked the Loggerhead Shrike nest, which at first I thought was empty. However, when I walked away, a parent bird suddenly emerged, perhaps no longer feeling the need to stay hunkered down, and the babies made their presence known with outraged complaints. A flock of White Pelicans (migrants?), a Northern Harrier being harrassed by a Grackle, a fully adult Bald Eagle soaring lazily in all its splendor. There were mixed species clouds of Swallows, mostly Barn Swallows but including Tree Swallows, that surrounded me at times -- not quite enough to be a true tornado but impressive nonetheless when birds swooped and dived almost close enough to touch. Note: All birds were seen in Fontainebleau, except the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, which was seen near the entrance to the Nature Center boardwalk. Unfortunately, I couldn't progress very far on this trail, because the storm had brought down a great many trees, including at least one large oak. This is bad news for the Bird Fest, which starts tomorrow, because it won't be humanly possible to get those trees moved and the path open again before the Fest. Common Loon -- it seemed to be in the process of molting into its breeding plumage White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-Crested Cormorant Little Blue Heron -- blue phase Great Blue Heron Snowy Egret Great Egret Blue-Winged Teal Northern Harrier - brown immature/female Bald Eagle American Coot Common Moorhen Killdeer, heard Solitary Sandpiper -- not on the official Fontainebleau bird list, but neither is Brown Pelican! Laughing Gull Forster's Tern Red-Bellied Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird Barn Swallow Tree Swallow American Crow Fish Crow -- both crow species "spoke," making ID easy Blue Jay Carolina Chickadee, heard Tufted Titmouse Sedge Wren -- sheesh, this bird is fast, but there were a lot of them to check for the absence of "eyebrows," may have seen a Marsh Wren as well but I'm not sure enough to feel comfortable counting it Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Northern Mockingbird Loggerhead Shrike -- with active nest Yellow-Rumped Warbler -- "myrtle" Northern Cardinal Red-Winged Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-Tailed Grackle -- brown eyed "Gulf Coast" type, male "singing" and then copulating with willing female Hummingbird Report: Not sure if I have more male Ruby-Throats passing through or the same male returning to the feeder at intervals. A broccoli and cheese baked potato and mug of hot chocolate later This is funny. The female Northern Cardinal perched on top of the Carolina Chickadee house, and an adult Chickadee pecked her on the back and chased her off post-haste. *Little Brown Job. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford