[EBB Sightings] fledge season

Lotsa nervous parents yesterday at Huckleberry
Preserve. A male Wilson's warbler not only showed
himself to me, but scolded and hopped ever closer, all
the while cocking a beady eye and spreading and
fluttering his wings. "Hello! Here I am! Look over
here!" Gotta be some warbler kids around nearby.

A male Hairy Woodpecker also attempted to draw my eye
and ear with his loud and showy displays, playing
woodpecker peekaboo with me from behind his sheltering
oak. Begging calls from his young hidden above me in
the treetops told me why.

A pair of Band-tail pigeons were quite active
yesterday, flying back and forth overhead. All very
suspicious.

Meanwhile, the female golden eagle perched proudly
atop the Com towers, her beautifully worn mantle
feathers shiny gold. As I glassed her from across the
canyon, she turned her head to stare back at me, well
within the purvue of her eagle eye. She certainly
wasn't deigning to pay atention to the tiny kestrel,
swooping back and forth far beneath her lofty perch;
perhaps the kestrel was feeling a bit nervous, too.

Debbie Viess