Unfortunately this isn't a place where I observe birds often. I think that since the tree was a dead conifer, it's probably unlikely that it was hosting moth caterpillars, I'll defer to the experts on that. Otherwise, it wasn't apparent that the parents were bringing food into the nest, I only noticed that they were carrying away items. I posted a shot of what we saw here
https://ibb.co/kgnncNN. It's not a great photo, but may illuminate to others the nature of the carried materials.
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I saw a single Solitary Sandpiper in a recently disked very wet horse pasture, with puddles of varying sizes, at 85th Street and Sandridge Rd., near the town of Long Beach, about an hour ago. 85th goes to the Lone Fir Cemetery. The pasture had a lot of Ringed -billed Gulls, Starlings, and Brewer?s Blackbird. The Solitary Sandpiper was the only shorebird species there.
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We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed!
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