Date: 8/10/25 10:57 am From: lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...> Subject: Re: [IBLE] Hummingbirds
Thanks for the response! Yup, not even close to your numbers, Bill. But, that's good to hear. Interesting... their migration corridors.
Most entertaining birds today are the W Wood-Pewees. Yesterday, I heard & saw one miss a cabbage butterfly flitting across the yard. Could hear the Pewee's bills "clacking" together as it missed 3 times, then returned to its perch with no luck. Today, while watching the nectar feeder, heard that same clacking sound, just in time to see a W Wood-Pewee snatch a cabbage butterfly from the air & return to its perch to, literally, gulp it down. A minute later, same Pewee caught another of the butterflies trying to dodge the bird to no avail. 4 zig-zags & down the butterfly went, mid-flight, before the Pewee returned to its perch. Amazing flight maneuverability of the little birds!
Great-horneds are calling &, hear in early AM hours, too. A hen turkey with 3 young comes in towards evening. No Sandhills close by that I've seen this year. Haven't checked out backwaters of Amer Falls lately, tho. In past, have always found a few there. Most abundant seed feeder bird is Black-headed Grosbeak. The young are all flying now &, at times, will have up to 11 (adults plus juvies) vying for space atop the platform feeder.
