After missing most of September with a bug I was nice enough not to share, I finally got out of the house and began servicing my nest boxes at the Hoover Nature Preserve. I had a bad case of cabin fever.
The deer mice are using many nest boxes as their seasonal home. I had so many deer mice jumping out as I opened the nest boxes to clean them that it was like standing in front of a baseball batting practice machine gone mad. Both the mice and I survived the experience. In the areas with my nest boxes there is a thick canopy formed by the trees and there was much activity to distract me. In addition the mudflats along the west shore hosted a small variety of lingering shorebirds, gulls and egrets along with a few birds of prey.
Charlie Bombaci
Species observed include:
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Dunlin
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Common tern
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
American Goldfinch



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