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more post-breeding dispersal
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: more post-breeding dispersal
- From: Donna Slyce Bailey <dsbailey@conterra.com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 21:35:35 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Around noon, while visiting my parents in Lexington county, I heard a
strangely familiar high-pitched wolf whistle overhead. Up high in a sky so
bright with haze and sun that it dazzled my eyes, I could see two
Mississippi Kites and a Red-tailed Hawk. The birds were describing lazy
slow spirals in the hot wind that sometimes proceeds thunderheads. In the
mudhole of what remains of the acre pond that I grew up with was an
immature Little Blue Heron, successfully catching small frogs, and a Green
Heron. While there is nothing particularly unusual about a Mississippi
Kite or a Little Blue Heron in Lexington county, they aren’t usual yard
birds for Mom and Dad. Following on the sighting of a Mississippi Kite as
I got out of my car at work yesterday morning, and as others have pointed
out, it is apparent that post-breeding dispersal has begun.
Donna Slyce Bailey
Winnsboro, SC
e-mail: dsbailey@conterra.com
URL: http://www.conterra.com/dsbailey
Where are the Birds? Migration across South Carolina