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a family destroyed, a bluebird vindicated 2008-04-19 - 1:12 p.m. all photos � 2008 by elaine radford, except where noted red-headed woodpecker Another rainy Friday night, another morning's run to Fontainebleau State Park to see if I could grab any good birds. I got up much earlier this time, arriving at 7 AM instead of at 10, so the alligators weren't out, but I had plenty else to observe without them. The family of Bald Eagles was still there, with one adult sitting watch with the two young fledglings. I suppose the older birds take turns providing the adult supervision. No Palm Warbler, no Blue Grosbeak, but lots of Indigo Buntings almost at the same bend in the path where they were before, and a little group of Yellow Warblers and Northern Parulas. Some good spring birds I missed last week like Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Great Crested Flycatcher, Gray Catbird, and Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher. A Loggerhead Shrike showed himself, but not in the old place, instead close to the tent camping area. A pair of Green Herons flew very close by me, their bright orange feet catching the sun. Lots and lots and lots of singing Cardinals. An astonishing number of Blue Jays. An even more astonishing number of Tree Swallows, many low, spinning in the sun to suddenly flash blue-green like so many winged specimens of labradorite. I always feel that I don't get as much out of my audio tapes as other people do, but they're not entirely useless. I followed a tune that came from the Robin/Baltimore Oriole/Summer or Scarlet Tanager line of things, and soon located a very attractive young singing male Summer Tanager. I think my photo of the bird came out too contrasty, though, so enjoy the photo of the Northern Cardinal instead. I have to take back all the nasty things I wrote last week about the bad-tempered Eastern Bluebird. Maybe the rest of you saw this one coming from a mile away, and it seems like I've heard of Red-Headed Woodpeckers exhibiting this bad behavior before, but it rather took me by surprise when I encountered the Red-Headed Woodpecker in the photograph above getting his head hit over and over again by Carolina Chickadees. I mean, what the heck, a poor Woodpecker has got to drill the holes or the other birds have got nowhere to nest, right? Then I realized that he wasn't drilling anything. The hole was a done deal. And the poor Chickadees were nesting in it. Somehow, the RHWO had caught on to the fact that there were tasty baby birds in there, and he decided that it was time for a change from banging his head on trees to dig out insects. Not a great photo, but can you see that? Yeah, it's a nice juicy baby Carolina Chickadee. Despite all of the small stuff hitting him in the head, our villain soon pulled it completely out of the nest and flew to a nearby snag to finish consuming it. The adult chickadees couldn't seem to accept this tragic blow. After a moment, one of them flew and looked into the hole real quick, then flew away. After that, they didn't look into the hole, just flew to the branch extending from the snag from time to time and sat a bit, as if listening. It really touched your heart to see how, even they knew better, they kind of wanted to keep on hoping. And I realize now that the reason that last week's Eastern Bluebird was attacking the Red-Headed Woodpecker so viciously at "his" nesthole was that it wasn't the RHWO's nesthole at all. It must have been the Bluebird's. And the RHWO was trying to pull some tasty baby bluebird out of it. Here's today's list: Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga Great Egret Tricolored Heron Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Bald Eagle Common Moorhen American Coot Laughing Gull Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Carolina Chickadee Loggerhead Shrike Fish Crow Blue Jay European Starling Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Summer Tanager Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford