Date: 6/3/25 6:35 am From: DAVID KOCH <0000012d74227426-dmarc-request...> Subject: Koch property, Northampton County
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...>
