Re: continuous singing….. is outrageous, oui? still in a crescendo maybe?

I’m usually sleepless by 0400 or 0430 (is this a geezer thing?), grab a cup of tea, open my office window while fiddling around with eBird or email on this silly computer… noting that robins are still singing earlier and earlier, sometimes by 0510 hrs, and that’s my cue to go bike the greenbelt, with plenty of lighting of course (headlamps, etc), with a goal of reaching my usual “nighthawk viewing site” by 0600 because they only put on a 5-10 minute show

along the way (three miles), i.e., before 0600, I’ve recently been hearing about 15 other species sound off in a diminutive “battle of the bands” =)

will be interesting to compare when July arrives……

Larry

From: “Elizabeth Medes liz.medes@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 7:17:29 PM
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Bewick’s Wrens (BEWR) ~ ~ ~

Great thread. Never thought I’d be lucky enough to have Bewicks wrens in my hood but here they are. Yes, the song variation keeps throwing me, such virtuosos!

And I am curious about the continuous singing. This has been going on for a month. When these guys hook up, does it stop? Typically with yellow breasted chats in the same thicket, they halt their calls once they find a mate. I don’t hear a peep from them after 7/1.

And where the heck have all the buteos gone? Plentiful gophers and mice abound here, fabulous habitat, fully fledged Kestrels are hunting, but no big guys in the air. Typically I can see 3 different fledglings of red tails, at least one Swainson fledge, and last year the big bonus of a Golden Eagle and young one.. But now? Nada.

When Montour WMA opens up again 7/1, I hope to explore and see who’s hunting whom.

Buteo-less in Emmett,
Liz Medes