Atlantic City Air Show

US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds
US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds
US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds
US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds
US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds

Free-fall - US Army Golden Knights Parachute Team Jump



The air show was yesterday, A really good show. I took over 900 photos. I rode the bus up to AC from Del haven, that was the way to go. Traffic was bumper to bumper from the parkway to the bus terminal. I heard that the city was excepting 700,000 people for the air show. The show ran from 10am to nearly 4pm.

I'm up for the Fall

I came up to New Jersey on Tuesday 18th to Band hawks for the fall(Sept. - Nov.) at Cape May Point. I flew up on SpriritAir, the flight was ok but the landings were a bit rough- new pilot i guess. I'm planning on posting what hawks I've caught with photos.

Project Perch Part II

Here are a few photos of the new home onwers and putting up the guardrails around the burrows.

Project Perch

Last Tuesday, the 4th and yesterday, the 11th I helped Project Perch dig burrows and put up gaurd rails for Burrowing owls at Driftwood Middle school.
Kelly Heffernan started Project Perch to help Burrowing Owls, and educate the public by working with students and schools in Broward county, fl.
There was great news yesterday, one of the burrows that we dug last week had two Owls at the entrance. Driftwood middle has had owls at the school before.

Dinner Time

The oriole family came by again at the normal time, around 3-4pm. The two adults were busy as usual getting worms for their kid(Bronzed Cowbird). They left an hour later but were back just before 7pm. This time I was able to get the money shot - the actual feeding!!!

A visional impairment

This morning the Orioles were getting worms for their adopted kid. I took a few more photos of them.
I noticed this morning one of the parents has a cloudy eye, a cataract in the right eye. This doesn't seem to slow it down. Unfortunately birds like this don't last long. They don't see the hawk, car, cat, etc. coming until it's too late.

Life of a parent - brood-parasitism

Searching....
Got a worm!

Forever hungry

Yesterday and today a pair of Spot-Breasted Orioles have been accompanied by their adopted kid (cowbird, most likely Bronzed). The parents have been very busy collecting little green worms that they are getting from the underside of leaves in the trees and brushes. Occasionally the adults have been eating mango from the neighbors' tree.
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Cowbirds are one of the species that are brood parasites. This means they will remove a host egg when they lay one of their own in a nest. This can happen either in the same visit to the host nest or in a separate visit before or after the parasitism. This both prevents the host species from realizing their nest has been parasitized and reduces competition for the parasitic nestling once it hatches.