For the first time at the MPG Ranch, trail cams captured American coot, California quail, and Williamson’s sapsucker. To raise chicks, coots need dense stands of emergent, aquatic vegetation along a portion of shoreline (BNA Online). These stands exist around the Clubhouse Floodplain bridge. At Angela, we recorded coot at four of the five bodies of water on which we have cameras; the exception is the pond with the least vegetated banks. There are 16 state records of California quail, but we believe the bird is more abundant in Montana than the records indicate. We hope to find a female or evidence of breeding. We put the first camera at a high elevation perch last fall and it recorded the sapsucker pair. They require medium to high elevation conifer or mixed deciduous-conifer forests to breed (BNA Online)
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:32:48 +0000
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