Date: 5/31/25 8:35 am From: Robert McLean (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Location quiz
Provocative question! I love it.
I also love yard birding and keeping a yard list (we live in a suburban area which along with neighboring properties has some large oaks, tulip poplars, hickory, linden, maple and other trees. Yet we also have a large super market, a Duncan Donuts, and a Starbucks all very close by).
With my yard birding I have experienced another side of birding that includes:
Hearing a pair of House Wrens singing a duet
Seeing juvenile WB Nuthatches marching up a tree in single file
A family of Carolina Wrens raised on our window sill. Several weeks after hatching, the adults put the young wrens on notice to get out. The parents vocalized together like you’ve never heard, and the next day the 3 young wrens were gone.
The male cardinal feeding the female each spring from our sunflower seeds on the ground. (I have also heard the cardinals sing a duet).
18 species of warblers in our bird baths over the last five years including having 4 Bay-breasted Warblers all at once in or on the edge of the bird baths, a female Cape May, and other warblers seen and photographed at eye level from my second story window looking straight over at the young Red Cedar that many of the warblers go to before and after their baths.
8 species of sparrows including Lincoln’s and White-crowned ( both just once).
Watching hummingbirds feeding on my Cardinal Flowers in mid summer
Rescuing a hummingbird on a cold day in April. Warming it and releasing it, and then realizing weeks later that the same bird recognized me when I was nearby or filling the feeders.
Good birding!
Taylor McLean
Baltimore, MD
PS Yes, we are retired and work in our gardens regularly
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> On May 31, 2025, at 8:37 AM, scompton1251 <scompton1251...> wrote:
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> Chuck-wills-widow Eastern Whp-poor-will, Hooded Warbler, Swainson's Warbler, Summer Tanager, Yellow- throated Vireo, Eastern Screech Owl, Swallow- tailed Kite, American Goldfinch, Yellow-breasted Chat, Wild Turkey.
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> Steve Compton
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