Western Kingbird Nest--NARRATED
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
- Western Kingbirds nest high up, away from most predators. They love utility poles for that reason.
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Saw a nice Eastern Kingbird today and it was very nice to photograph and see in a nearby park. It is nice to see them back at their breeding grounds in the US in our beautiful fields often perched on fences or reeds.
I envy you the chance to photograph eastern kingbirds. We live in Missouri, but I don’t have any decent footage of them.
Thanks for commenting back so quickly! It is greatly appreciated! Hope you get more footage soon! They're real nice birds, always a treat seeing on perch. If you'd like I could email or share the photo with you for you to use in any vid you may make, it would be my pleasure. Love your vids! Also was able to see some warbler species recently such as Chesnut-Sided, Yellow Rumped, and Black and White. Still trying to get better footage of these small yet beautiful birds, but I do have some footage of them taken luckily!
@@ShlundoMC How generous of you to offer me the photograph. And sure, why not? I only have one clip of an Eastern Kingbird (the one in this film), so it isn't all that likely that I'll use it, but you never know. My email is joalwo7@gmail.com. What name will be on the email?
I hear you about the difficulty of getting warbler footage. I got quite a bit of it five years ago by letting cameras run on key spots in our manmade stream in the autumn, then did a movie about fall warblers. But I have very little footage of them in the spring--when they're usually more beautiful. But what I do have has come in handy for the next movie I'll put up, which is about how swallows hunt bugs. The footage I have of warblers flycatching will stand as a contrast to the way swallows catch bugs.
Update: I realized I only have the kingbird photo I took transfered to my phone at this moment. Ill be sure to get it on my phone and send it in an email separate to the one I have just sent. Have a great day! Looking forward to you seeing the great vid I havd captured!
This is adorable, thank you for sharing! I watched a momma feed her babies a dragonfly today! We have a nest right outside our back door. They are definitely aware of us and like to hover over our heads to scare us, but they do seem to be okay with coexisting. They are the cutest little babies! This is the first year we’ve seen them in our yard. I hope they come back next year! Thanks again for a fantastic video!
You're so lucky, and what's even better is that you have the good sense to appreciate it.
Thank you for sharing this! These birds are just beautiful! We have Sissor-tail Flycatchers here in my part of Texas but I don't think I've ever seen a Western Kingbird.
Enjoyed this very much!! ❤
Thanks for commenting, Donnaleigh. And hey, if I had to choose, I'd sure take the Scissortail!
Here in Virginia, we have Eastern Kingbirds that return each year to the side of our house for their annual breeding cycle. They're usually pretty behaved and don't chase our kids away unless they get right next to the nest on a ladder, then all bets are off! We thought we had ruined the yearly treat when their nest was removed from our house by a pressure-washing company. To our surprise, the birds made a new nest right in the same spot and we're enjoying them again this year!
I'm jealous!!!
I just saw a fledging come out of my birdhouse, on my deck! It’s not high up, at all. I didn’t realize it was kingbirds, till I saw the fledging. I was always watching, but the parents are so quick, I’ve been thinking they were yellow bellied warblers! I wondered what happened, because the parents were very busy building nest, and then they disappeared. The fledging this morning hung out, at the entrance, looking out, for about 2 minutes, and then flew away! I got a good look at it, with my binoculars. So Im sure it was a western kingbird.
It's good that you persistent until you could ID them. They sure are beautiful birds, aren't they?
Hello from Central Oregon! We have a lot of these tyrant flycatchers around here, and this year a pair has made their nest high on top of a power pole off our backyard. They must like the power poles, haha. I just hope they are tough enough to ward off the magpies, they rob all kinds of bird nests around here, even clinging to the sides of bird houses plucking baby sparrows out!
Hopefully these kingbirds do well and return next year, I love the sounds they make.
If any songbird can fight off magpies, these would be the one. Last summer, we watched a dozen or more Robins trying to evict a Western Kingbird from a dead Sycamore. The Kingbird absolutely wasn't having it. Instead, he drove all of them away.
Some really great captures there - very enjoyable.
A "thumbs up" from me....
Best regards from Japan,
Thomas
Thank you so much, Thomas, for watching and offering a positive endorsement. I had never seen a Western Kingbird before, because Missouri is at the border of their eastern range, and they aren't very common here. So when a photographer friend tipped me off about the nest, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of this lovely bird.
My pleasure ^_~
Both a lovely glimpse into the lift of bird parenting, and a good introduction to Kingbirds. Saw one in Denver a few weeks ago for the first time -- on a prairie, no less... Interesting Latin name, for certain! Good to hear an explanation of how they earned that name.
Glad you enjoyed the movie, Keefry. Thanks for watching and commenting.