Determined hummer hangs at feeder despite chilly temperatures We have had a few frosty mornings here at Crown Point with ice on the net bags three different mornings.
The warmer water of the lake didn’t even protect us from the cold temperatures.
The birds that were out those mornings were sitting in the sun to get warm even before they ate a few green worms.
The worms that live in the leaves of the hawthorns are one of the reasons so many birds stop at Crown Point to refuel before going further north.
One frosty morning several of the little green worms left their curled up leaves and spun a single strain web to the ground. They will live in the soil for a little while before hatching into moths.
All those frosty single webs in the morning sunrise made for a neat picture.
I don’t have the final total of birds banded during the two weeks at Crown Point but we did pass 300 over the weekend with 53 different species.
The best bird we banded—a Carolina wren—had never been recorded there before. Continue reading