Hey all you birders, can you identify this bird for me? I have looked through my books and I think it's some kind of juvenile warbler but no idea which one.
It was perched on the bird house and watching for bugs on the lawn, then flying down to grab a bug and return to its perch.
My garden is nearly done, no frost yet but we have been close. The gladiolus are blooming finally though!
Gussie finally came in heat and Beamer covered her, it will be a mid August foal next year. Gussie and Pie head home on the weekend.
I have really enjoyed having them here!
We fenced off a major portion of the rest of the farm that is part of our rental. It was already fenced on the north and east with barb wire which has a strand of electrified wire , so I am not concerned about them leaning on it, and the west side is bordered by the new hot wire pen that we built last month. So it was just posts and 2 strands of white electric tape to cross fence- made for a fairly easy job. I figured the measurements out at 15 acres.
There are 2 drawbacks to offset the benefit of having all that pasture- no access to the automatic waterer, so it's tubs and hoses to water them, and their only shelter is trees at the far end. At some point we will figure out a track system to get them into the shelter pen which has the waterer. Before winter!
Ideally, this will be a winter grazing pen once we get the track system built.
Here's another "identify this" I need help with. We have all these mushrooms popping up, and I want to know if they are edible.
10 comments:
the mushroom is shaggy parasol. considered toxic.
Cute bird! I don’t know what it is. Your horses are in heaven with all that lush grass. Sounds like it was easy to fence off, too.
Wow you have good looking pasture. Around here they have been feeding hay about a month now. Pretty bird no idea what it is and I only trust mushrooms at the grocery store!
The bird is a Says Phoebe, considered a flycatcher. "Say’s Phoebe has adapted to its favored habitat of dry, semi-open terrain in farmlands, prairies, and scrubland in its relationship to water. It does not drink water directly. Its insect diet provides sufficient water. "
lea- thank you so much!
Agree with Says Phoebe, even though I have never seen one...except in photos that is
M- thanks for the info- I guess I won't be eating them!
I tried to ID the bird via the Merlin app. My best guess was some type of flycatcher, based on the tail feathers. I held off replying since I was not sure. Had no clue on the mushroom either. Glad others could help you out.
I was going with phoebe but my bird ID checker is in Ecuador.
I'm just admiring your pasture. Ours is brown and dirt now though some of the weeds are surviving.
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