My Lovely Birds

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At it again, two of them and same nest build, directly overhead.

Went out and cut it for them, setting it down wrapped for them and ready to go. The one having been fighting with it permitted me extremely close, within four feet (might be Robenia), before flying up into a tree. Her mate then gathered it, as soon as I crossed back over the driveway. They have been at it like mad this morning, hauling everything up there but the kitchen sink. Just look at this load during lift-off flight lol

 

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Published in August, but many of my adult robins and cardinals have been looking extremely tattered and for over one month now, maybe even two months, causing me to look for some potential ailment mentioned online. I am keeping up with disinfecting their bath and permitting it to air dry.

Molting | Outside My Window

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Keeping a close eye upon me while hunting...

 

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Same

 

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Spoke to Meagan at KDFWR, then completed their little form here.

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Public Survey

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Cannot contact me, though...

 

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Flock of maybe 50 birds just flew overhead. Mo idea what they were, but I could easily tell they were the same as I saw a couple years back with simply amazing flight abilities, synchronized aerobatics and very fast medium sized birds with distint angles, points to the shapes of their wings (smaller than doves but not by too very much).

 

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Spy that young female cardinal keeping a careful eye upon me, while hunting the edge of the spiderwort bed. She is sneaky.

 

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Cannot see them too well, but my lovely gray catbird has a decent sized fledgling within the blackberry jungle right now. The adult is feeding it, while also showing it how to hunt. The fledgling flew from the ground up and onto a low cane, after watching the adult do so. Quite chatty. Although here each year, I had never seen one fledged until today.

If not, it's courting its mate...

Fledglings since confirmed.

 

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Just ran down here and chased her wicked self across the street, before even brewing my decaf.

With assistance

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Time to lift and refill that clean, heavy thing... I'm not feeling it just yet...

 

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Mission accomplished...

 

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Adult gray catbird.

 

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This is that young cardinal again. The dogs were barely inside and snoozing, when she landed upon the deck railing and simply began studying me from maybe only 8' away. I think she probably drank from one of the dog's water bowls, being how she had hopped down that way and out of sight around the corner for a minute, before reappearing between different planters sitting within full sun at this time.

She began picking something off them, while continuing to closely study me. I kept my phone down within my lap and just slowly tilted it upward to her. It's all I could do.

I still think it was the one having hopped along the deck directly upon fledging, less than 3' from me not too very long ago; the one in which I carried into the blackberry jungle. This is her turf.