PHScott was going to host a Bucket about incoming Hurricane Michael but I don’t see it this morning, which means he’s in the middle of dealing with it over there in Tallahassee.
From weather.com weather.com/...:
Hurricane Michael has strengthened to Category 2 intensity, and is forecast to strike the Florida Panhandle at least as strong as a Category 3 with dangerous storm surge flooding, destructive winds and flooding rainfall. Michael will also bring heavy rain and strong winds to other parts of the southeastern United States after it moves inland.
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October 7, 2018
Pacific Northwest
Marsh Wrens are described as a bird “more often heard than seen” and that’s the truth! I got lucky yesterday afternoon, was able to catch some partial views of one that was hopping around in a thicket between the road and a wetland.
The wetland beyond remains wet throughout the summer, with several small pools of standing water.
The native Nootka rose shrub there is losing its leaves, hence harder for a bird to hide in. Even so, these are the only images I could catch, when it was on this side of the bushes.
I heard it first, a musical trilling. Not quite as spectacularly musical as they are in spring, but even now in the off season more so than most birds. When I walked near its calling it stopped, and then started up again when I stood very still for a while. It sounded like there were two. Books say they make these calls to warn off interlopers in their territories, however loose they are in winter.
Marsh Wrens eat insects most of the year, supplemented with plant material in winter when insects become scarce. They don’t migrate around here.
I recorded half a minute of this one calling, hidden in the bushes.
More about Marsh Wrens: www.allaboutbirds.org/…
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Sun has come out today after several quite cool and wet heavily overcast days in the Pacific Northwest. We’re alternating between sun and cloud and rain these October days.
What’s up in nature in your area today?
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