Today Jeanne and I finished the second half of the second round of the LBJNG quail survey.
The second stop and always beautiful at sunrise! Unfortunately no Bobs were heard today. We will try again in a week or so. Fingers crossed! Next was to check Jeanne’s nest boxes.
So I thought I saw interesting plant on the way to the nest box checking. Please stop and park it was my request. And we were glad we stopped for Common Devil’s Claw (Proboscidea louisianica) with a Oblique Syrphid Fly (Allograpta obliqua). Both equally worth it. 🙂
Sure looked like eyelashes on the Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta var pulcherrima) near by!
We arrived at the nest boxes. Not many of the boxes had any activity. So while Jeanne checked a box I took the time to admire the Four Point Evening Primrose (Oenothera rhombipetala)!
Only one box had avian occupants.
And one box had a tree frog!
Indeed the avian breeding season is almost over.
Judy and Miguel were looking back at old photos (2011) on the computer and found this.
Here was another from 2016. So I’m going assume both incidents were not fatal.🤞🏼So interesting!
We had a Cooper’s hawk chase a white-winged dove into our dining room window a number of years ago. The dove left an amazing dust print on the glass. Things did not end well for the dove, but the hawk was happy.
Nice day! And very interesting about waxworms eating plastic!
Someone to clean up our mess…fingers crossed.
Beautiful devils claw flower and fly. Sorry about the quail.
Maybe next time 🤞🏼
We had a Cooper’s hawk chase a white-winged dove into our dining room window a number of years ago. The dove left an amazing dust print on the glass. Things did not end well for the dove, but the hawk was happy.
That was memorable memory! Thanks for sharing.
That’s a really cool old tree – wish they had shown photos of the leaves and blooms too.
Those are really detailed bird prints on the windows!
Yeah, I wondered why there were no photos too. 🙂
FYI. The dove flew away so hopefully it was ok
Do you recall if anyone chasing them like in Suzanne’s case?