Date: 6/3/25 10:21 am From: Donna Collett <dcollett57...> Subject: Re: Koch property, Northampton County
Paradise!
On Tue, Jun 3, 2025, 9:35 AM DAVID KOCH <
<0000012d74227426-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> As has been the case for years now, rose-breasted grosbeaks are in the
> yard at feeders every day. They come down from our wooded property (60+
> acres) across the road and go back up after feeding. Sometimes there are
> several here at the same time, both males and females. I've differentiated
> 6 different males, although there may be more, because of the differences
> in their red breasts. Other species include a willow flycatcher in the
> bottom fields that's almost certainly going to nest, as one has for several
> years. A female hummingbird is in and quickly out of the front yard flowers
> daily, telling me that she's probably nesting somewhere nearby. Accumulated
> water at the eastern end of our bottom fields has been drawing in both
> spotted and semipalmated sandpipers occasionally. Thrashers are present as
> are cedar waxwings, common yellowthroats, house wrens, etc. We have 10 nest
> boxes out and at least 8 or them are occupied. Three have bluebirds, one
> has a house wren, and the rest have tree swallows. Yesterday a rough-winged
> swallow passed overhead, as did a nighthawk. A pileated woodpecker has been
> drilling a hole in a post in the back yard. But the most species I'm
> currently seeing are coming in to feed on mulberries on a tree in the back
> yard. All the common species are eating the berries, and last night a
> kingbird joined them. So we'll see what else that tree may attract. And two
> different female Baltimore orioles are using the unwound baler twine I put
> out for nesting material.
> Arlene Koch Easton, PA Northampton County <davilene...>
>
