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Orioles

5/24/2019

Baltimore Orioles and Orchard Orioles at the Cupola Inn Bed and Breakfast. There are lots of Orioles here across from the road from the Winnebago River. They tend to nest in hanging nests in the trees above the river, and they flock to the grape jelly feeders at the B&B - a delight for guests They also like to perch on the weather vane with the cow that is on top of a cupola near the feeders. I took all of these photos from the car - my mobile photo blind, parked in the driveway.
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Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt

5/9/2019

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A fat, wet Racoon wandering in the cat-tails along the side of the road , mama Canada Goose taking the goslings out for a stroll (the other adult and a few more goslings were just out of view of this photo), a busy Lark Sparrow with a beak full of nesting material, and a Killdeer. The Killdeer lay their eggs on the ground, often among rocks or gravel. When confronted they will walk away from the nest area displaying their tail feathers to try to distract and draw the visitor away from the nest.. Just a few of the critters and birds that I saw while driving through the Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt, Polk County Conservation. Photos taken from the car - my mobile photo blind.
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Ventura Marsh Birds

5/2/2019

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Yellow-rumped Warbler - I went out paddling in my kayak this morning in Ventura Marsh to take photos of whatever birds I could find. While slowly navigating through last year's cattails to get closer to some Yellow-headed Blackbirds I found myself surrounded by dozens of migrating Yellow-rumped Warblers (if you have an old bird book they used to be called Myrtle Warblers, but I guess Myrtle didn't like being associated with a yellow-rumped bird). Actually there are now two subspecies of Yellow-rumped Warblers - 'Myrtle' is the eastern variety and 'Audubon's' in the mountainous west.

There were many Yellow-headed Blackbirds being very acrobatic hanging on to last year's cattails in Ventura Marsh. Photo from my kayak.

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