Fall sparrows are starting to come through Lincoln. Nelson's with orange head, hard to find Henslow's and some regulars.

Yellow-rumped warbler and a merlin

All through late Sep and Oct the Franklin's gulls migrate

Various odd pictures

Green heron

Prairie yields sparrowlike birds but also ibises

Ibises took off

August shorebirds

August shorebirds that come through Eastern Nebraska seem to be fewer species than in the spring. Tht should make it easy to ID most. But there are more young birds among them.

These two were obviously least sandpipers:

But so was this:

There were tons of pectoral sandpipers at Tamora near Seward.

The yellow leg birds behind are Wilson's phalaropes

There was also one red-necked phalarope with a black smudge on the face and shorter bill. It also swims well and spins in the war.

Some birds look like they are working as a team or at least very tolerant of each other.

It's been hard to find anything without green or yellow legs, but here was the one semipalmated sandpiper at Jack Sinn (Killdeer for size comparison):

Home Stretch I Hope

Nest Boxes Blog


There are still a few boxes to follow. One just hatched two and the third will hatch today. I will be going to that box in a week and then a week later, with minimal work to check it. However, it is in very tall grass.

South Side

The nest box with with three fledged all three. There is one more box with 4 blue eggs. In a week I cans say if anything came of it.

Wrens have taken over several boxes, but only one has a nest.

With the sticks out the hole, it's a good guess it is just a male doing his duty, filling every cavity with sticks.

North Side

The four in Box 11 are ready to leave any day, fully feathered.

In Box 18, three eggs were laid and all 3 will hatch today, one still an egg.

Summer

Bobolinks

Grasshopper sparrow

Common Yellowthroat

Sedge Wren

Bluebird

Just a few pics

These speak for themselves

 Bank swallows

In june, waxwings appear solo, at tops of trees. Maybe the male of a pair. They do not sing much.