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A female bird excavating a nest.

Selections from a fight scene (over feeding territory).

Includes feeding sounds. Also heard: TUTI, BLJA, DOWO, WBNU, HAWO, NOCA, humans, aircraft

CARW switching to three song styles in quick succession within a span of about 15 seconds. Also heard: NOCA.

N.B., All black bill, yellow eye, and white feathers beginning to show on the head. 1st spring (Sibley).

Excerpt of calls and in-flight wingbeats and calls (headphones recommended). Also heard: NOCA, FICR, TUTI, WTSP.

Commensalism: This CACH was found working next to a tree where a YBSA was feasting on insects. See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202863759 for the YBSA observation.

Foraging WTSP's calls, followed up with a variation of the “poor-sam-peabody song”. NOCA, CARW, TUTI, and WBN can also be heard in the background.

I initially thought this bird was going after the bark (or the sap therein) until it eventually pulled out the insect larva.

Yellow-rumped warbler, Myrtle sub-species (Setophaga coronata coronata)

Late migrant individual.

Duet. Also heard: occasional anthrophony (cars) and geophony (light rain and wind).

Excerpt. Also can be heard in the background: Blue Jay, American Robin, Northern Cardinal

Duetting Barred Owls.

Also heard: WBNU. Recorded with a Sony PCM-M10 Portable linear PCM audio recorder and a pair of LOM mikroUši omnidirectional electret microphones.

Recorded with a Sony PCM-M10 Portable linear PCM audio recorder and a pair of LOM mikroUši omnidirectional electret microphones.

Courtship display.

This set of pictures captures the moment a male RCKI flashes its crest/crown patch right after chasing off another (intruding) RCKI from its feeding territory.

Late migrant for DC.

Same bird.

The Myrtle variety are considered by some as a separate species (Setophaga coronata).

Collecting nesting material; was transporting it to an opening under a large tree root.

I was initially alerted to the unusual sound it was making as in at the 0.55-1.05-minute mark in the audio. Stashing the fruits away and covering them with lichen?

Some kind of red fungus dots. If you zoom in you can see the texture of these bumps on a log.

Collecting mud as part of its nest building effort.

Same bird.