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Daily Bucket - Mississippi Bird Quiz, (audio edition) [1]

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Date: 2023-07-01

Any thing that grows a leaf here in Mississippi is presently lush and thick. This is the perfect haven for birds to rest, nest and play. I have discussed how hard it is to find photographic subjects during the “growing season”. Today I will test your ability to locate ( or identify) birds by their songs. This is one way I find my life list additions (until I confirm with a photo).

All the following videos are less than a minute in length.

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The first offering is a yearlong resident here. 75% of you will know this bird (but maybe not this variation on it’s standard song). For you west coast US. participants, this may be an uncommon sound to you but a daily gift of music for me. I hope you have your own favorite “tune smith”. Please feel free to include one in your comments.

My second bird is an early riser and usually quieter during the day. Good luck.

The next segment is a typical June morning in my driveway. I’ll give you a hint, my second highlighted bird is also heard in this audio recording. I have 4 birds identified as the primary singers. If you find others, good for you because the air is alive with music.

My last audio recording was taken at the bottom of my hill. It is the ideal site for birds. 30% of all my photographs were taken at this location. I have 5 birds as primaries and can hear faint murmurs of others in the background. One example is a Common Crow within the recording (I didn’t count it). Have fun with this exercise.

My Bug of the Day is busy worker, even in the killer heat of Summer. The Yellow & Black Mud Dauber — ( Sceliphron caementarium ) collects wet clay to make it’s nests. The clay is gathered into a ball and transported between the mandibles and front legs to the construction site. An egg is deposited into the first cavity of the tube/nest and a food source (usually a spider) is stunned and placed in with the soon to be hatched, growing and starving larva. As new segments are added, new food sources are added.

However, it begins with the collection of the mud.

gathering the mud for transport

Ready for take off

Of course there is video of this procedure.

Here is my list of answers to the quiz.

Thanks for playing along and please consider this an open thread.

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