The second phase of the Brooklyn Bird Club Centennial native planting site will be Saturday June 26th , this time planting wildflowers.The delivery to the Natural Resources Propagation nursery is sometime after June 17th so the best time for planting the second planting will be June 26th at 10 am at the southern Vale of Cashmere site ( water fountain meeting spot).
Flowers primarily planted will be Goldenrods and asters. ( white wood aster, blue-stemmed goldenrod, Canada Goldenrod ( i think, I forgot the species i asked for), New England Asters..I'll keep you posted with another reminder before the proposed date.
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For those of you curious as to how I and my group fared on our June 4th-7th Brooklyn Bird Club journey to Delmarva ( DElaware, MAryland, VIrginia), check the link below. We tallied 130 species. Sandy Paci will be sending me a link to her photo gallery in which she is editing her digital shots now of birds and nature.Check back later after seeing the list. It was an incredible trip experience , a spectacular region of natural beauty.
---Kingsboider
http://bbcprevioustripreports.blogspot.com/
**************************************************************************************************************************** Red-tailed Hawk fledging takes off.
From Rob Jett:
I ran into Devi at Nelly's Lawn in Prospect Park today.
When I walked over she was staring up at "Nelly" on
her favorite perch in "Elizabeth's Tuliptree". It was only
after I had been looking for a few moments that I noticed
one of the juveniles on the branch to mom's
right! One of the trio had fledged and made the
approximately 100 yard flight across the field from the
nest tree. The other two young hawks were climbing around
on the branches beneath the nest.
We had walked back across the grass to a spot below the
nest to watch the other two for a while. At around noon,
the eyass that had fledged suddenly flew back across the
lawn and into the nest tree. The three then seemed content
to spend the rest of their time preening and resting. When
we left at around 1pm, they were still in the nest tree.
If the other two haven't already made some short flights,
they no doubt will be flying tomorrow.
At the Ravine nest, those two looked ready to fledge and
one had ventured way out on a limb at the south side of
the nest. She was out of view, so I climbed down the ridge
and walked around on the opposite side of Rocky Pass.
Unfortunately, there is no longer any vantage point on that
side from which to see the nest. The entire top of the
pine tree is now blocked from view. I heard a lot of
squealing from one of the young hawks, but couldn't be
certain if it was coming from the nest tree or just nearby.
I should have some Prospect Park images posted on
my blog shortly.
Also, Marge reported to me today that the Green-Wood
Cemetery pair look ready to leave the nest. I hope to get
over to the cemetery tomorrow afternoon.
Rob
The City Birder Weblog
http://citybirder.blogspot.com
