Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:25:51 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: Western Kingbird Update (07-02) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/3/2003 6:29:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ringler@QIS.NET writes: > Did you actually see the Western Kingbird participate in feeding the > young? Four of us including Jim Peters observed the male feeding young on 7/2. Jim suspects the birds will fledge within 7 to 10 days. Jim's not sure when they hatched nor how many young are in the nest. The female was incubating the young for 15-20 min periods on 7/2 and would leave for up to 1/2 an hour. The male WEKI often makes a circle from his Xmas tree ornament position at the top of the tree nest site. He dives & dodges after a variety of flying insects, catches them, deposits them in the nest (bad angle, can't see much), then resumes guard duty at the top of the tree. Jim saw last year's eggs consumed by Fish Crows. He's hoping for a better ending this time. Anyone needing directions, check out: Phil Davis', June-Week 4, No 8 posting, Re: Western Kingbird at Ft. McHenry Gail Frantz Old Hanover Rd Reisterstown, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================