#birdcallout

Good news!!! We have four swallows on the wire this morning. Our mating pair, last year’s young who has been helping all summer and one little fledging who made it through the dry weather!! The first two fledgings vanished in the drought and this survivor was the strongest of three in the next clutch. It’s a fragile achievement but bloody hell does it make me happy! #ClimateDiary #Swallows #BirdCallOut

Indigo bunting! Eating the elderberries! #BirdCallOut

#Vultures! In the wetlands! #BirdCallOut I was at the back of my little bog after releasing a few bats the other day just after sunset, when I noticed two of my local black vultures having a bit of a cuddle atop a tree snag at the edge of the water. Volume up for some swamp sounds. 🖤 I love that my backyard corner of the world is an overlap of black vultures and turkey vultures.

Northern Parula in the garden! It’s starting! Warblerpalooza for the next three weeks!! #BirdCallOut