Condition: 70.9 F, hazy and overcast
Start time: 7:39PM
End time: 8:00PM
Ethogram:
LO - Locomotion (hopping with less than 10 seconds between hops, swimming)
FF - Feeding/foraging (approaching prey by hopping, catching with mouth, prey in mouth, swallowing)
RS - At rest (unmoving for more than 10 seconds)
RS = 10 mins/21 mins = 47.62%
LO = 1/21 = 4.76%
FF = 4/21 = 19.05%
Bright red on rump and chest. In parking garage doing mating call from wall overlooking y lot. Song identified with audobon birds app
Males swimming around defending territories.
Lives up to his name!
Screenshot taken from video.
I spotted female raven and a nest in the siding of the Homer Babbidge Library.
It was rainy and 54 degrees. The habitat was surrounded by a couple house-buildings and bushes. There are short grasses and a few medium size trees.
It was rainy and 56 degrees. I spotted 2 rabbits and observed 1 for about 13 mins.
It was slightly windy and cloudy. It was a wooded area with small and large trees, compost leaves, and bushes.
It was slightly sunny and slightly windy in a marshland with berry/pricker bushes and cattails.I spotted 3 males and between 2 and 3 females.
It was warm, slightly sunny marshland with taller grasses and moist land, in a field w/ short grass. Groundhog burrows run through the fields evident by the groundhogs crawling in and out of them. There was 3 groundhogs that I spotted, and I only observed one of them closely. I recorded its activity budget.
Male sparrow chasing and trying to court with female sparrow.
Parent feeding young.
-Sunny, 75 degrees
-Flew from tree to tree
-Hid in between branches and was hard to see
-1 minute observation
-3:45 PM
-Sunny, 75 degrees
-Flew around rapidly
-Sat on a flower for a second then flew away again
-Couldn't see what it was really doing
-1 minute observation
-3:20 PM
-Sunny, 70 degrees
-A dragonfly flew around incredibly quickly
-When I approached it, it flew away
-Behavior couldn't be properly recorded
-Adlib
-Horsebarn Hill
-Rainy & Windy
-3:45 PM
-Scratching most of the time
-Looking at ground for food when not scratching
-Staring back up towards fence
-Attempted to hide in bushes at times
-However, was alert throughout 5 minute observation
a group of 4 chickadees were foraging at the ends of pine branches.
