Field Journal 4

Around 2 pm. Clear, blue sky day, about 60 degrees. Area has a few spaced out trees, mostly open with prairie grass. There were a few of these birds flying low to the ground in the prairie grass. I think it is a song sparrow but I'm not positive.

I heard black-capped chickadee calls with different number of "dee"s at the end. The calls were sort of coming from different areas so there were multiple but I could only see one (the picture I got was too bright to see the bird in it). When I walked below the tree the chickadee was in I noticed that the "dee"s increased by one or so, and then it would fly to a farther branch or different tree all together. The, I believe song sparrows, in the the prairie grass would sort of fly/jump through the grass low to the ground. when one would go by the one in the picture would crane its head around a bit. They would also call back and forth.

The plumage of the birds I saw very much resembled the coloring of what they would rest in. The bird pictured was hard to pick out among the grass until I saw it fly and then land. Even when I was taking videos/pictures I struggled to spot the bird through my camera lens. I saw a few birds with dark slate color on the back of the bird. When it was flying I could see the birds white underbelly and dark back relatively clearly. However when it rested on a tree branch the color on the back of the bird was very close to the color of the tree bark and the bird almost melted away from sight. This makes sense as these birds are very small and probably rely on cammoflage for protection from predators.

The bird with the darker color on its back was primarily higher up in the trees. In this setting the bird was incredibly hard to see as it blended in with the bark color nicely. If the bird that was primarily in the prairie grass was in the trees it would stick out against the even dark color. However in the prairie grass, the varied brown colors let it melt away into the prairie grass habitat. For context the grass was adjacent to the cluster of trees. Geographically the two habitats were very close together.

I also observed a kildeer fly through the spaced out trees. It sort of weaved in and out of the of the trees almost like a figure eight on a tilt.

Publicado el 27 de marzo de 2020 por helen235 helen235

Observaciones

Fotos / Sonidos

Qué

Chingolo Arbóreo (Spizelloides arborea)

Observ.

helen235

Fecha

Marzo 26, 2019

Descripción

Around 2 pm. Clear, blue sky day, about 60 degrees. Area has a few spaced out trees, mostly open with prairie grass. There were a few of these birds flying low to the ground in the prairie grass. I think it is a song sparrow but I'm not positive.

I heard black-capped chickadee calls with different number of "dee"s at the end. The calls were sort of coming from different areas so there were multiple but I could only see one (the picture I got was too bright to see the bird in it). When I walked below the tree the chickadee was in I noticed that the "dee"s increased by one or so, and then it would fly to a farther branch or different tree all together. The, I believe song sparrows, in the the prairie grass would sort of fly/jump through the grass low to the ground. when one would go by the one in the picture would crane its head around a bit. They would also call back and forth.

The plumage of the birds I saw very much resembled the coloring of what they would rest in. The bird pictured was hard to pick out among the grass until I saw it fly and then land. Even when I was taking videos/pictures I struggled to spot the bird through my camera lens. I saw a few birds with dark slate color on the back of the bird. When it was flying I could see the birds white underbelly and dark back relatively clearly. However when it rested on a tree branch the color on the back of the bird was very close to the color of the tree bark and the bird almost melted away from sight. This makes sense as these birds are very small and probably rely on cammoflage for protection from predators.

The bird with the darker color on its back was primarily higher up in the trees. In this setting the bird was incredibly hard to see as it blended in with the bark color nicely. If the bird that was primarily in the prairie grass was in the trees it would stick out against the even dark color. However in the prairie grass, the varied brown colors let it melt away into the prairie grass habitat. For context the grass was adjacent to the cluster of trees. Geographically the two habitats were very close together.

I also observed a kildeer fly through the spaced out trees. It sort of weaved in and out of the of the trees almost like a figure eight on a tilt.

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