Couple of bird sighting experiences & bird sighting checklist at Forest Hut...
Black-Crowned Night Heron
The Black-Crowned Night Heron, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, including parts of Eurasia and America. They primarily eat small fish, leeches, frogs, other amphibians, snakes, small mammals, small birds, eggs, carrion.
Mourning Dove
The Mourning Dove is a member of the dove family. It is one of the most abundant and widespread species of all North American birds. This species' call is a distinctive, plaintive cooOOoo-wooo-woo-woooo.
Lilac-Breasted Roller
The Lilac-breasted Roller is an African bird of the roller family. The diet of the lilac-breasted roller consists of arthropods and small vertebrates, including ground-dwelling insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and millipedes, snails, and a variety of small vertebrates, including small birds. Slow-moving lizards, chameleons and snakes.
Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo
The red-tailed black cockatoo is a large black cockatoo native to Australia. Although red-tailed black cockatoos feed on a wide variety of native and introduced grains, the mainstay of their diet is eucalyptus seeds.
Storm Petrel
The Ashy Storm Petrel is a small seabird family Hydrobatidae. It breeds colonially on islands off the coasts of California and Mexico. Endangered.
Japanese Spider Crab
These giant crabs are nocturnal. They mainly feed on small plants & animals.
Northern Cardinal
Northern cardinals are numerous across the eastern United States & Mexico. Its diet consists mainly (up to 90%) of weed seeds, grains, and fruits. It is the state bird of seven U.S. states.
Winter At Forest Hut
A small poem on the Cold Season.
Blue Jay
The Blue Jay is a bird in the family Corvidae, native to eastern North America. It is a noisy, bold, and aggressive passerine. It is omnivorous.