The mourning warbler continued at the Celery Farm Wednesday morning. 

    A lot of black on the chest on this bird. Simply gorgeous.

    Pretty quiet otherwise as far as migrants, but a Spotted Sandpiper, female Hummingbird, and a Northern Waterthrush heard singing were nice.

Saw this guy on the way to work today.

  He was stuck on a divider on Route 17 in East Rutherford.

  I called the police. They were already aware of the situation.

  In case you're wondering: I took the photo while stopped at a traffic light.

In this video, the owlets are roughly two weeks old and getting occasionally noisy.  
   Mom leaves the nest more often, and when she or Dad drops off food, it's a bit chaotic.
   Scroll down the blog for the first video in this series.

    Had some very nice looks at a singing male MOURNING WARBLER at the CF this morning. Location: main trail (both sides) past Pirie Platform but before the heavily wooded section (near the edge of BH Pond which is where I first heard it).
  In the same area there was a LINCOLN'S SPARROW, my first at CF this year. Always a treat to see one here in the spring.

  Also Heard 2 singing ALDER FLYCATCHERS. One in the same area, the other in the area before the butterfly garden.

   It was singing in a heavily leafed tree along the main path for a minute--before flying back into the field toward Greenway. This one I got a few distant looks at.

Welcome to the Ace family saga, 2008. Over the next several days, I will be posting videos of the two screech owls and their five owlets.

  Overall, I recorded more than 120 hours of the Ace family. The videos are the highlight reels.

   This video begins with the five eggs about to hatch.

   Questions? Comments?

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