Babies, babies, and more babies.

Bob Duchesne

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Jul 31, 2020, 4:53:58 PM7/31/20

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Right now, I’m watching a family of five black-and-white warblers work the trees just over the deck, with parents feeding young. This is five weeks after I atlas-eBirded a female carrying food in the neighborhood. Must be a second brood. I understand that this species may raise a second brood in a season. But I can’t explain why I’m seeing chickadee, nuthatch, and titmouse babies this late in summer. Other birds are acting similarly suspicious. Weird.

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Julia Hanauer-Milne

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Jul 31, 2020, 7:20:05 PM7/31/20

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I watched golden crowned kinglets feeding babies this week up in Perry. No idea if that's normal for this time of year or not up there.

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John Edgar Wyatt

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Jul 31, 2020, 8:24:51 PM7/31/20

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Brown Thrashers have been frequent visitors this summer to jelly we set out on our deck. On June 20th they were in the yard with young. Now there appears to be a second brood with a begging juvenile sitting by the jelly dish and an adult constantly stuffing dab after dab of jelly into its mouth. Big baby, busy mama.