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Many thanks Lance. The Phoebe chicks were getting pretty large and filling the nest. The sapsucker chick(s) quite noisy but the adult bird put head well into nest hole to feed and the chick head could not be seen sticking out the hole. I just had not remembered myself finding a sapsucker nest beyond the first or second week of July. Thanks for the hint of using the Quebec atlas site. Cheers Ken Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 > On Aug 4, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Laviolette, Lance <lance.laviolette@lmco.com> wrote: > > Hi Ken, > > Yes the drop down menu item for nesting chronology is not working. I went to the Quebec BB Atlas site and looked at that reference. The timing is similar for much of Nova Scotia. The Yellow-bellied sapsucker brood rearing period is listed to about the third week in August. For Eastern Phoebe it goes until mid-August. Interestingly they list the third week in August for Tree Swallows. > > All the best, > > Lance > > Lance Laviolette > Brier Island Bird Migration Research Station > Brier Island, Nova Scotia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Ken McKenna > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 12:14 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: EXTERNAL: [NatureNS] Late nesting birds EAPH, YBSA > > Hi all > On a little stroll this morning on the Willard Fraser Rd. Pictou Co, I found a nest of Easter Phoebe with at least 3 young under a bridge with an adult seen bringing food. It is not that unusual I don't think for Phoebes to nest late as they have multiple broods. > > Only 100 m away I also heard the distinct sounds of a nesting woodpecker begging for food. A little wait showed the nester to be a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. I thought this to be on the late side for this species. Tried to find the breeding season for sapsuckers in the new Maritime breeding Bird Atlas but for some reason this info is not included. Also I don't seem to be able to open the drop-down info from the maritime Breeding Bird Atlas website where this info was previously available. (Maybe it is my IPad that can't open this info but everything else in the column appears to open). > > This year I also had my latest nesting Tree Swallow in my yard with the young probably leaving the nest the morning of August 2 a month later than the usual date. Fred MacKenzie less than a km up the road also had a similar late nesting Tree Swallow in a box in his yard. > > Cheers > Ken > > Sent from my iPad > > Sent from my iPad > >
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