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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Sunday's weather was perfect - sunny and warm. Yellow-rumped Warblers filled the leaf-less trees along the Lower Chippewa River in Durand. Phoebes hawked insects and a Belted Kingfisher was back on the utility wire down by Little Bear Creek.
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| Chipping Sparrow |
The Tyrone property on RR 107 was full of Chipping Sparrows and Lark Sparrows. Barn Swallows skimmed over the prairies and Blue-winged Teal joined the puddle ducks in the bottom lands near Meridean. We spotted Common Loons and Double-crested Cormorants down at Silver Birch Park.
But a day later, everyone's talking about the weather - the winter that just won't let go. The sky started spitting snow around noon. It isn't sticking, and as long as I don't have to drive anywhere, it's okay with me.
But what about the insect-eating birds that arrived this weekend?
How do the phoebes and warblers survive a couple of days of cold, wet weather?
Migration is full of perils - weather, cars, window collisions, tower collisions, predators.
They find insects on buds and tree bark. They eat fruits.
And some, like the Yellow-rumped Warblers, visit suet feeders. At 7:47pm this evening, with the temperature hovering just above freezing, this male Yellow-rump discovered the peanut butter suet feeder in my back yard!
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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