June 10, 2007 [LINK / comment]

Breeding season: Shhhh!

It was a beautiful clear, sunny, mild day, so I took a brief walk through Montgomery Hall Park before church this morning. Because it's the middle of breeding season, however, most of the birds were keeping a low profile so as not to attract predators to their nests. Today's highlights are listed below. I also heard a Red-eyed vireo and some Blue-gray gnatcatchers, but no Scarlet tanagers, to my surprise.

Click on the adjacent image to see a brief video clip of a male Downy woodpecker feeding one of his offspring inside the nest hole.