Date: 5/8/25 9:34 am From: <dotrobbins...> <dotrobbins...> Subject: [NFLbirds] Photos of fledging Sedge Wrens: Florida breeding record?
Hi Christine, Nice observation and documentation. Yes, this is noteworthy. The 2014 edition of the Florida Bird Species, Annotated List (Roberson and Woolfenden, updated by Greenlaw, Pranty, and Bowman) states: "one report...suggests breeding , but, as elsewhere in the southeast US..., verifiable evidence of breeding in Florida is not known." I'm not sure how best to submit this for the record. I suggest contacting Andy Kratter of the FOS Records Committee and Florida Museum of Natural History. I've cc'd him, so you have his email. Dotty Robbins
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From: Christine Anderson <steeno123...>
To: <nflbirds...>
Subject: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 05:44:49 -0400
Hello all, I captured the following images of what I'm reasonably sure are a fledgling Sedge wren and one of its parents. The photos were taken on 4/22/25 in Jefferson County, FL, near Monticello. I have since learned that this species typically breeds much farther north. Perhaps I've misidentified? If they are Sedge wrens, do these birds occasionally nest in our area? Thank you,Christine
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Date: 5/8/25 7:26 am From: Galveston Ornithological Society <galornsoc...> Subject: [NFLbirds] my PDFs
You seem like a serious student f birding and I thought you might enjoy my PDFs I send out (to over 2000 people). They are very educational, free, name-suppressed and maybe a couple per week. You can easily get off and I won’t even know it! 😊
I’ll attach one from this week and you decide if you wanna try them out.
Lemme know,
Jim
From: <nflbirds...> <nflbirds...> On Behalf Of Christine Anderson
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 6:59 AM
To: NFLbirds <nflbirds...>
Subject: [NFLbirds] Re: lookie what I found
Ha-ha! I thought I had every field guide on the planet. Looks like I've got some more to buy.
Thanks!
Christine
On Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 6:32:14 AM UTC-4 Galveston Ornithological Society wrote:
Date: 5/8/25 5:39 am From: Galveston Ornithological Society <galornsoc...> Subject: RE: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Well, there’s no question as to the ID. You even have an adult in your excellent spate of images. J
From: Christine Anderson <steeno123...>
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 6:46 AM
To: Galveston Ornithological Society <galornsoc...>
Cc: <nflbirds...>
Subject: Re: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Hi Jim,
These wrens were in the sedges around a cattle pond. So the area immediately surrounding the pond is rather wet, but quickly becomes dry pasture. Depending on how long it's been since the cattle have been in the pasture, the drier areas will have tall clumps of different grasses. The cattle were present when these photos were taken, so the grass in the drier areas was pretty short. If they are Sedge wrens, they may have moved to the pond's edge for better cover.
I don't have them as yet, but I can easily get the GPS coordinates.
Thanks,
Christine
On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM Galveston Ornithological Society <galornsoc...> <mailto:<galornsoc...> > wrote:
Hi Christine,
I have always wondered why there is no field guide to baby birds!
Your birds certainly look like Sedge Wrens. I wonder if the habitat matched that species. They are generally in high grasses (yes, sedges) and not really wet areas so much as Marsh Wrens. [That is why they changed the old name “short-billed marsh wren” to Sedge Wren.]
I’m not sure who handles the records these days for North Florida but this certainly looks in need of further review. Be sure to have the gps coordinates handy.
Your work is worthy of a congratulations, like our dear friend Jim Cavenaugh deserved with his nesting Virginia Rails.
Jim Stevenson
From: <nflbirds...> <mailto:<nflbirds...> <nflbirds...> <mailto:<nflbirds...> > On Behalf Of Christine Anderson
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:45 AM
To: <nflbirds...> <mailto:<nflbirds...> Subject: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Hello all,
I captured the following images of what I'm reasonably sure are a fledgling Sedge wren and one of its parents. The photos were taken on 4/22/25 in Jefferson County, FL, near Monticello.
I have since learned that this species typically breeds much farther north.
Perhaps I've misidentified?
If they are Sedge wrens, do these birds occasionally nest in our area?
Date: 5/8/25 5:03 am From: Christine Anderson <steeno123...> Subject: Re: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Hi Jim,
These wrens were in the sedges around a cattle pond. So the area
immediately surrounding the pond is rather wet, but quickly becomes dry
pasture. Depending on how long it's been since the cattle have been in the
pasture, the drier areas will have tall clumps of different grasses. The
cattle were present when these photos were taken, so the grass in the drier
areas was pretty short. If they are Sedge wrens, they may have moved to the
pond's edge for better cover.
I don't have them as yet, but I can easily get the GPS coordinates.
Thanks,
Christine
On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM Galveston Ornithological Society <
<galornsoc...> wrote:
> Hi Christine,
>
>
>
> I have always wondered why there is no field guide to baby birds!
>
>
>
> Your birds certainly look like Sedge Wrens. I wonder if the habitat
> matched that species. They are generally in high grasses (yes, sedges) and
> not really wet areas so much as Marsh Wrens. [That is why they changed the
> old name “short-billed marsh wren” to Sedge Wren.]
>
>
>
> I’m not sure who handles the records these days for North Florida but this
> certainly looks in need of further review. Be sure to have the gps
> coordinates handy.
>
>
>
> Your work is worthy of a congratulations, like our dear friend Jim
> Cavenaugh deserved with his nesting Virginia Rails.
>
>
>
> Jim Stevenson
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* <nflbirds...> <nflbirds...> *On Behalf
> Of *Christine Anderson
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:45 AM
> *To:* <nflbirds...>
> *Subject:* [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I captured the following images of what I'm reasonably sure are a
> fledgling Sedge wren and one of its parents. The photos were taken on
> 4/22/25 in Jefferson County, FL, near Monticello.
>
>
>
> I have since learned that this species typically breeds much farther north.
>
>
>
> Perhaps I've misidentified?
>
>
>
> If they are Sedge wrens, do these birds occasionally nest in our area?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Christine
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Date: 5/8/25 3:14 am From: Galveston Ornithological Society <galornsoc...> Subject: RE: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Hi Christine,
I have always wondered why there is no field guide to baby birds!
Your birds certainly look like Sedge Wrens. I wonder if the habitat matched that species. They are generally in high grasses (yes, sedges) and not really wet areas so much as Marsh Wrens. [That is why they changed the old name “short-billed marsh wren” to Sedge Wren.]
I’m not sure who handles the records these days for North Florida but this certainly looks in need of further review. Be sure to have the gps coordinates handy.
Your work is worthy of a congratulations, like our dear friend Jim Cavenaugh deserved with his nesting Virginia Rails.
Jim Stevenson
From: <nflbirds...> <nflbirds...> On Behalf Of Christine Anderson
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:45 AM
To: <nflbirds...>
Subject: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Hello all,
I captured the following images of what I'm reasonably sure are a fledgling Sedge wren and one of its parents. The photos were taken on 4/22/25 in Jefferson County, FL, near Monticello.
I have since learned that this species typically breeds much farther north.
Perhaps I've misidentified?
If they are Sedge wrens, do these birds occasionally nest in our area?
Date: 5/8/25 2:45 am From: Christine Anderson <steeno123...> Subject: [NFLbirds] A question for more experienced birders
Hello all,
I captured the following images of what I'm reasonably sure are a fledgling Sedge wren and one of its parents. The photos were taken on 4/22/25 in Jefferson County, FL, near Monticello.
I have since learned that this species typically breeds much farther north.
Perhaps I've misidentified?
If they are Sedge wrens, do these birds occasionally nest in our area?
*Nemesis Bird (definition): A bird species that a birder persistently
tries to find, but always misses.*
BirdCast radar showed 200,000 migrants passing over St. Marks NWR last
night. That is not a bad number for May and I decided to head down to the
refuge to look for Bay-breasted Warblers. Most Bay-breasts migrate to our
west, but one had been reported earlier this week. I needed one for the
year, so, I went down to try.
I was birding the Tower Pond Trail and finding only Blackpoll Warblers. A
good bird, but after your fifteenth Blackpoll you want some diversity. I
ran into another local birder, Eliza, but she reported only the same
Blackpolls that I had been seeing.
Spring birding usually improves during the day as trans-Gulf birds arrive
after an overnight flight. Some may not arrive until early afternoon. I
made another loop on the trail just before noon hoping for late-arriving
birds, but was finding only more Blackpolls. Then, I saw two birds moving
low, just off the trail. I got my binoculars on the first bird. It was a
male Black-throated Blue Warbler, a strikingly plumaged bird. I could see
that the second bird, a little further back, was different. I swung my
binoculars and got a good look. It was walking on the ground. The bird had
an olive-brown back and was yellow underneath. Its throat, head and neck
were pale gray and it had a prominent complete eye ring.
It was a Connecticut Warbler.
I have been searching for a Connecticut Warbler for well over fifty years.
It has been my nemesis bird. I have looked for it on its breeding grounds
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in Northern Minnesota. I have hit
migratory hotspots on the Florida peninsula where it was supposed to be
found, but until today, Connecticut Warbler had always eluded me.
My friend, John Hintermister, called me one Spring day, years ago, and
said, “Boy, I been studying on this and looked at all the records of
Connecticut Warbler sightings. I have figured it out. Get in your car and
get over here.” I spent a day birding with a ragtag group of Gainesville
birders on a site down near Tampa that John said would produce Connecticut
Warbler. A good day of birding, but no Connecticut Warbler.
The following year, John called me and said, “Boy, I figured out my
mistake. Get in your car and get over here.” That time, we birded an area
south of Daytona Beach, but again, no Connecticut Warbler.
Connecticut Warblers are ground dwelling birds. Although not rare, they
prefer thick undergrowth and are elusive and difficult to spot. They breed
in southern Canada and along the south side of Lake Superior in the United
States. They winter along Bolivia’s northern border. In Spring migration,
they island hop up through the Caribbean and the Florida peninsula and are
rare migrants in the panhandle. While this is not the first St. Marks
record, it has not been seen on the refuge in over fifty years.
Come down to the refuge. You never know what you are going to find.
Date: 5/5/25 6:14 pm From: Nicholas Petryk <nicholas.petryk96...> Subject: Re: [NFLbirds] A Possum raided both bird houses. Took all the bluebird eggs and then killed a house full of baby chickadee’s. One adult chickadee was left dead in the bird house. dead
It was a possum. Not a raccoon. I ran him out of my backyard in to the woods with the garden hose on power. . He didn’t look well. I didn’t want to get near him in case he is rabid. I have not seen a raccoon in my woods for over a year now. I may stop putting bird seed out. Bluebirds are not seed eaters. The food is attracting too many wild animals. there has also been a starving cat in our woods I wish I could trap her and get her help. She may have been the one who got the baby chickadees. I have had bobcats and foxes. The county let contractors build homes in here. it was all wetlands. In order to build in here as the ground would not perc. They ran a long sewer line to connect with a main and put in grinder pumps. It's horrible what contractors get away with. Greed. Pure Greed. im glad the interest rate went up. it stopped so much reckless over building.
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On Friday, May 2, 2025, 5:48 PM, 'Ralph Pfau' via NFLbirds <nflbirds...> wrote:
I did not have a raccoon/possum bale on either bird houses I had just one metal baffle on the chickadee house But I think the possum used a nearby tree to get on the house thus dropping down and avoiding the baffle. I am devastated. I’ve had these two houses up for years Even replaced the bluebird house with a new house last year. I live in the wetlands off of Highway 98 near Gulf Breeze Florida. This has never happened before in my past 8 years of living here. I may take down the houses
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I did not have a raccoon/possum bale on either bird houses I had just one metal baffle on the chickadee house But I think the possum used a nearby tree to get on the house thus dropping down and avoiding the baffle. I am devastated. I’ve had these two houses up for years Even replaced the bluebird house with a new house last year. I live in the wetlands off of Highway 98 near Gulf Breeze Florida. This has never happened before in my past 8 years of living here. I may take down the houses
Date: 5/2/25 3:19 pm From: 'Candy Pfau' via NFLbirds <nflbirds...> Subject: [NFLbirds] A Possum raided both bird houses. Took all the bluebird eggs and then killed a house full of baby chickadee’s. One adult chickadee was left dead in the bird house. dead
Date: 5/1/25 5:48 pm From: Don Morrow <donaldcmorrow...> Subject: [NFLbirds] May at SMNWR
It is May now at St. Marks NWR. Spring migration is rushing to a close as
the last northbound birds move through the refuge. Our summer breeders are
nesting and some are already feeding young. Swamp dogwood and wild rose are
blooming. The Chuck-wills-widows, loudly calling their name out into the
predawn darkness, have been joined by Common Nighthawks with their peenting
calls. The heat of summer is creeping in and bull gators are still
bellowing in the marshes.
April was a solid month of migration. Just over five million birds crossed
the refuge, and local birders recorded twenty-six species of warblers.
There was also a sighting of a Black-whiskered Vireo. The warblers were
headed north to breed. The vireo was also headed north, but was supposed to
stop in the mangrove swamps of Cuba or the Florida Keys. Sometimes, migrant
birds get a little exuberant and overshoot their mark.
Spring migration drops off quickly in May with attendant decreases in
migrant diversity. It is likely that a million birds will still be
migrating in the first half of the month, but less than ten species of
warblers will be among them. At this point in Spring migration, the
refuge’s migrants are primarily birds bound for the boreal forests and
arctic coasts of Canada.
Shorebirds are also migrating through the refuge. One of the later
shorebird migrants, not usually seen before May, is the White-rumped
Sandpiper. It is similar in appearance to many other sandpipers, but has a
distinctive white rump that is visible when it flies. It is a consummate
long-distance migrant, travelling between the Canadian High Arctic and
Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America. Some go even further south
and may fly ten thousand miles during Spring migration. White-rumped
Sandpipers are long jumpers, staying in the air for up to sixty hours at
altitudes that exceed ten thousand feet, while making flights of up to
2,500 miles. At the altitude a White-rumped Sandpiper is flying, it can see
for a hundred miles in all directions.
A White-rumped Sandpiper that you see at the St. Marks refuge in May might
have spent up to five days feeding on mud flats in the upper reaches of the
Amazon River in Brazil, gaining fat reserves before launching in the early
evening on a multi-day flight. It would have flown all night and through
the next day high over tropical forests and mountains in Columbia and
Venezuela and then begun a night crossing of the Caribbean Sea as the sun
set. During its second day in flight, it would have crossed the Cayman
Islands and seen a second sunset as it crossed Cuba. Flying in the darkness
over the eastern Gulf, paralleling the Florida peninsula, it would have
sighted St. Marks near sunrise and landed to feed.
There is experimental support that shows that birds dream. Do they also
have a sense of awe and wonder? Crossing the Caribbean Sea in the cold
clear air on a May night, listening to the call notes of other migrating
sandpipers, does this bird look down and admire the moon’s reflection on
the sea below?
Spring Migration 2025 is winding down and there will be no commemorative
t-shirts. Come down to St. Marks before it’s over. There are some
remarkable birds here.
Date: 4/25/25 1:06 pm From: 'WILLIAM PHELAN' via NFLbirds <nflbirds...> Subject: [NFLbirds] Yellow Rumped warbler without a yellow Rump?
Or is it something else? One photo shows some yellow on the lores. Otherwise, no yellow anywhere. Also the undertail shot does not show prominent black border around the white spots. Thanks for your help Bill Phelan
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Date: 4/14/25 11:09 am From: Lucy and Bob Duncan <robertaduncan...> Subject: [NFLbirds] Bird banding at Ft. Morgan, AL open to the public
The bird banding station at Ft. Morgan opened today. Hosted by Alabama Audubon, this is a rare opportunity to see birds up close, to watch scientists collect data, and to chat with them about birds and photograph birds being banded.Fort Morgan is one of the premier birding sites along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. Details about hours it will be open and information is found at COASTAL BIRD BANDING AT FORT MORGAN (FREE) — ALABAMA AUDUBON
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Here is a website that is all about bluebirds and maintaining their nest
boxes. I hope that you can find something helpful here. I know how
heartbreaking it is to have your bluebird nest fail!
Juli
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 12:55 PM 'Candy Pfau' via NFLbirds <
<nflbirds...> wrote:
> This is non related. Sorry, I don’t quite understand where to ask
> questions. Last year something
> Kept destroying my bluebird house. I waited a season. This year put up
> new house after season was over. It attracted a male and female. They
> seemed to be in and out of house. Then female seemed to be sitting with
> male guarding. Suddenly the male seemed upset. I waited another day. No
> female seen. Checked the house two blue eggs had fallen on to base of
> floor. Two still in the nest. I’m leaving it alone. But, the male is no
> where to be seen. I fear something got the female and that was when after
> no activity I opened house and found two eggs on floor of house outside
> nest. Do I wait. While longer. I am so devastated over this loss.
> I have black bears who have on occasion destroyed a house completely. Last
> year a black bear ripped the entire side off my bluebird house. I’ve just
> about decided to give up on bird houses here. .
> Are there any devices I can buy to protect my houses. Thanks for any
> advice. I’ve decided though that as long as. I keep putting up bird houses
> my local black bears will destroy them. I’m wondering if some sort of
> alarm on side of house would work. I have a large very loud air Horn that
> runs them off But that won’t help in the middle of the night. I believe
> I’ll just put out bird food and skip nesting houses
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad
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> On Thursday, March 27, 2025, 3:46 PM, Lucy and Bob Duncan <
> <robertaduncan...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Early Neotropical passerine migrants have been moving through for the last
> several days. Parula, Prothonotary, Hooded and Black & White Warblers and
> Louisiana Waterthrushes and White-eyed Vireos. These species have
> populations that winter in both the West Indies and Central and South Am.
> Early in the season, March, early April, most of these arrivals are from
> the Indies. Why? Early migrants doing Trans-Gulf migration risk
> encountering strong cold fronts and adverse winds in the Gulf of Mexico.
> Better to winter in the Indies and move up the Florida Peninsula or eastern
> Gulf where land is down below or not far. Later in the season when the
> Bermuda High is in position giving them SE or S tail winds is a better
> deal. Populations of these same species move up later.
>
> Rain, the key ingredient for putting birds down in the immediate coastal
> area, occurred on the 24th and sure enough, Lucy and I had several migrants
> of the above species in our yard. This was not a classic Fallout (trees
> dripping with birds). This is a rare event with fewer birds each year as
> populations decline, but enough to put some down.
>
> So watch the forecast and hit the migrant traps when rain is forecast.
>
> Bob Duncan
> Gulf Breeze, FL
>
>
>
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Date: 4/10/25 2:06 pm From: Jim Anderton <jim.anderton.fl...> Subject: [NFLbirds] Hummingbirds and Spring Migration in Okaloosa County
Hello all,
We recently installed a camera on our hummingbird feeder, mostly so that we know if/when to put it away for the winter. But I've also found that it gives clues about migration in general. Here is a summary of the number of feeder visits we've recorded in the last week:
What stands out is the 51 hummingbird feeder visits on 7 Apr, with a very low Birdcast migration count. Our best local migration trap, Okaloosa Veterans Park, was exceptionally good from 7 to 9 Apr. There were, for example, nineteen warbler species in the park over those three days. This was not unexpected after days of strong south winds followed by a storm front on 6 - 7 April that cut off birds as they arrived, and left north winds in its wake. What about the low Birdcast counts? Birdcast estimates the number of birds crossing the county, not birds that hit the coast and don't leave.
Even though we don't see a lot of migrant species in our yard, we do get hummingbirds. The next time I see a spike in feeder visits, I will head over to Veterans Park to see what else may have arrived!
Date: 4/8/25 9:55 am From: 'Candy Pfau' via NFLbirds <nflbirds...> Subject: Re: [NFLbirds] A primer on early migration for new birders
This is non related. Sorry, I don’t quite understand where to ask questions. Last year something Kept destroying my bluebird house. I waited a season. This year put up new house after season was over. It attracted a male and female. They seemed to be in and out of house. Then female seemed to be sitting with male guarding. Suddenly the male seemed upset. I waited another day. No female seen. Checked the house two blue eggs had fallen on to base of floor. Two still in the nest. I’m leaving it alone. But, the male is no where to be seen. I fear something got the female and that was when after no activity I opened house and found two eggs on floor of house outside nest. Do I wait. While longer. I am so devastated over this loss. I have black bears who have on occasion destroyed a house completely. Last year a black bear ripped the entire side off my bluebird house. I’ve just about decided to give up on bird houses here. .Are there any devices I can buy to protect my houses. Thanks for any advice. I’ve decided though that as long as. I keep putting up bird houses my local black bears will destroy them. I’m wondering if some sort of alarm on side of house would work. I have a large very loud air Horn that runs them off But that won’t help in the middle of the night. I believe I’ll just put out bird food and skip nesting houses
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad
On Thursday, March 27, 2025, 3:46 PM, Lucy and Bob Duncan <robertaduncan...> wrote:
Hi all,
Early Neotropical passerine migrants have been moving through for the last several days. Parula, Prothonotary, Hooded and Black & White Warblers and Louisiana Waterthrushes and White-eyed Vireos. These species have populations that winter in both the West Indies and Central and South Am. Early in the season, March, early April, most of these arrivals are from the Indies. Why? Early migrants doing Trans-Gulf migration risk encountering strong cold fronts and adverse winds in the Gulf of Mexico. Better to winter in the Indies and move up the Florida Peninsula or eastern Gulf where land is down below or not far. Later in the season when the Bermuda High is in position giving them SE or S tail winds is a better deal. Populations of these same species move up later.
Rain, the key ingredient for putting birds down in the immediate coastal area, occurred on the 24th and sure enough, Lucy and I had several migrants of the above species in our yard. This was not a classic Fallout (trees dripping with birds). This is a rare event with fewer birds each year as populations decline, but enough to put some down.
So watch the forecast and hit the migrant traps when rain is forecast.
