Today's trip was a successful one to the Granada Golf Course. Three confirmed species recorded.
There were enough starlings and mockingbirds carrying food around to sink a ship. I was really expecting to see a hawk with all this food around, but I wasn't that lucky. With all the fledged mockingbirds, I was worried that I'm reaching the peak of the breeding season, that I'm going to start seeing less and less breeders. But their safe dates last until the end of July so these are probably the early breeders.
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| House Sparrows building nests. |
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| Kind of hard to see, but that's an adult European Starling butt poking out of this cavity in the palm tree. |
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| And there is the baby starling! |
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| Fledgling Northern Mockingbird |
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| Common Myna. I've never seen them around here before. |
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| For some reason the adult mockingbirds would open up their wings when on the ground. I think it's part of their hunting behavior, to scare up insects. I'll have to double check. |
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| Another fledgling mockingbird with parent! |
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