Some Late Nesting Notes from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona
Some Late Nesting Notes from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona
On July 29, while locating a site for a wood cutter’s camp I heard the “whip-popper” note of a Palmer Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre palmeri), and on looking into the only cholla in sight found the nest and two fresh eggs. Two weeks later the latter had hatched, and during September and October I saw the young birds frequently about the camp, whenever I happened out there.
September 1 I was in Ramsay Canyon for a few hours, and from force of habit, spent part of the time looking around a bit. On the lard bucket bail which I had hung up in the identical place from which I had taken my set of Blue-throated Hummingbird (Cyanolaemus clemenciae), previously recorded in THE CONDOR, I found a new nest and two till feathered young. A week later, they were still in the nest but almost able to fly. Their backs showed the green shades very nicely, and there was a slight darkening on the throat of one, somewhat in the nature of specks. I took photos of them, hanging the nest down in the light for that purpose. They fluttered out as I took them down, but remained quiet after being replaced.
October 4, my uncle, Mr. F. N. Wolcott, while deer hunting, flushed a Band-tailed Pigeon (Columba f. fasciata) from its nest in a small oak. The one egg was fresh. I tried to locate the place a week later but found only an empty nest which may or may not have been the one he saw.
