Yesterday morning I spent a couple of hours birding in areas not more than
5 miles from my home. I was looking for lingering bobolinks but with no luck.
However, I was in one area with a creek and tall trees and 2 piliated
woodpeckers were in a tree just over my head. The noise was deafening. So
much so that I thought there must be more than 2 of them. I was able to watch
them and as the noise continued, neither one of them were opening their bills
as they called. Do piliated make that noise without opening their mouths? If
not, there were definitely more than 2 there in the trees and I couldn't find
them. They kept it up for more than 5 minutes.
Other birds of note heard or seen: BOBWHITE QUAIL! , chats, white eyed
vireo, prairie warbler, pair of blue grosbeaks, barn and tree swallows, blue
birds, indigo buntings, towhees, chipping and field sparrows, meadowlarks and
flocks of goldfinches.
In my yard, there is a nesting pair of Baltimore orioles. Don't know
exactly where. Saw male attacking a crow and saw the female working the holly
bushes. Large flocks of cedar waxwings visiting the mulberry tree which has
berries this year.
Peggy Lyons
Concord
Campbell County
