[VIDEO HAS GONE AWOL – SORRY!]
Filmed by Jack Dodson of Missouri. Shows Prothonotary Warbler adults feeding young in a nestbox, and removing fecal sacs. Annotations by Bet Zimmerman. Intro photo by Charlie Bombaci, end photo by Robert Peak.
Dodson got the video footage with a consumer-level Sony mini-HD video camera mounted on a tripod. He put it about 5 feet away frmo the nestbox, focused on the entrance hole, turned it on and left. He came back an hour later to retrieve the tape. The video version on this website is significantly compressed and edited (and gaps have been edited out – there were actually about 10 visits over the course of the hour) – in the original you can identify what type of insects the parents are bringing in.
More Information:
- All About Prothonotary Warblers – nesting, monitoring, etc.
- Nestcam set up
- Photos of PROW nests, eggs and young, Sialis.org
- Nest and Egg ID (with links to species biology and photos of nests, eggs and young) for other small cavity nesters, Sialis.org
- Cornell PROW nesting sequence from nestcam
- ID, life history, etc. USGS
- More PROW at nestbox photos by by Yvonne and Al Bordelon of Little Tchefuncte Hummingbird Hill.
- Other photos:
- PROW feeding at an entrance to a cavity in a tree
- PROW at a nestbox affixed to a fifth wheel camper
- PROW collecting moss for nest
- Good photo of PROW (free for use) at Wikimedia Commons
Video archives (Some are no longer live, sorry!)
- The Story of the Titmouse – Paul and Austin Murray
- Bluebird Food action – John Beaudette of Canada
- House Wren Attacking Eggs – Bet Zimmerman
- House Sparrow attacks another bird inside a nestbox – Tony Carita
- Hissing Titmouse – Bet Zimmerman
- Also see Nest Cam webpage (Sialis)
- House Wren attacks bluebird nestlings – Linda Moore
- Bumblebees in EABL nestbox – Bet Zimmerman
- Mouse House – Bet Zimmerman
- Flying Squirrel eating – Joe Chapuis, WebVideoZone.com
- Starling Attacks Purple Martins – Simon of purplemartin.tv
- Flying Squirrel peeks out of nestbox – Bet Zimmerman
- Nuthatch Roosts in Gilwood Nestbox claimed by EABL – Bet Zimmerman
- Bluebird Lays an Egg – Bet Zimmerman (with captions)
- Helpers – Fledglings feeding nestlings – Kenn
- House Wren divebombs monitor – Jeff Hansen
- Oak Titmouse assists egg hatching – Sue Flynn, Oregon
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
– from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
