Dateline: 12 June 2022, etc.
Nothing better than bad bird video except bad bird audio! All audio via the ChirpOMatic app on iPhone.
On the way out to Gull Point Sunday afternoon, the BirdingPI.com team noticed a Downy Woodpecker nest hole high up in a dead tree off Budny Beach, near where the inner old trail meets the beach. Noisy even at a distance – lots of hungry hatchlings!
Close-up of nest hole:
Photos of the female on the return trek to the parking lot:
Notice the grubs towards the base of the beak:
Spotted two Brown Thrashers in the overgrown section towards the start of the Gull Point outer old trail (just past the swamp section). They hung around long enough in the thick vegetation for getting an audio sample – note the ‘clicking’ chirps and two-note call towards the end of the clip.
Baltimore Oriole song from earlier in the spring, in Millcreek Twp (“Gateway to Presque Isle”):
Finally, Pileated Woodpecker pecking/etc. sound, also in Millcreek Twp:
