Here’s the answer to the quiz I posted yesterday regarding what bird is holding those insects in its bill. If you missed it, the photo is in the previous post, so just scroll down a bit and see if you know what bird it is — then come back and his “continue reading” below.
Photo by Chris Bosak
A bird brings a mouthful of goodies back to its young at Selleck’s/Dunlap Woods in spring 2014.
What bird would eat such things??? (Probably lots of them, to be honest.)
This busy parent bird collected a few insect larvae and a few other insects to bring back to a hungry family on Tuesday morning at Selleck’s/Dunlap Woods in Darien, Conn.
So what bird is this? Leave a comment or send me an email (bozclark@earthlink.net) with your guess. I’ll post the full picture sometime on Wednesday (tomorrow) afternoon, so hurry and guess — oh, and don’t forget to tell your birding friends.
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Wait a minute here. Aren’t warblers supposed to be colorful and obviously marked? Many are, but of course plenty are not. So, instead of just blurting out the answer, I’ll make this post a birding ID quiz.
So what do we have here? I’ll post the answer in a day or two.
Stumped? Drop me a line at bozclark@earthlink.net and I’ll give you a hint.
Photo by Chris Bosak
Piping Plover at Coastal Center at Milford Point, Conn., April 2014.
My latest For the Birds Column focuses on the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds, or in other words, volunteering to monitor Piping Plovers, Least Terns, American Oystercatchers and other shorebirds. The program is important in order to help protect these threatened birds. (See the column here.)
To give you an idea of the challenges faced by volunteers in finding Piping Plovers, here’s a fun little quiz for everybody. When on the beach you really have to look for motion in order to find the birds most of the time as they blend in so terrifically with their beach surroundings. With that in mind … the task of the quiz is simple: find the Piping Plover in the above photo.
Let me know how you did. I’ll post the answer later this week for those who can’t find it.
Birds of New England.com 