May 25, 2011

Running Deer and Riverbend

Started out gloomy, just like every other non-summer day lately. [Okay wait, I CAN NOT complain; not a mosquito in sight....If this keeps up it will be a fab summer indeed....well maybe not for the nighthawks.....]


FOS Violet-green Swallow. Right after a quick flyover from a Least Tern. 
I still find them completely beautiful.


Okay, I know this one's an easy one... For the silhouette group.


First good looks at Eastern Kingbirds this year.


Its the Mink buddy! Saw one three times today, the third time 
it was carrying a large snack!


Spotted Sandpiper? So I'll say...


At some point, brief pockets of sunshine crept in. This Common Merganser
must have thought it an appropriate time to dry off. Had to turn around on
the trail when I came across two mallards doing the same.


A very pretty little flycatcher. I'm gonna call him Least. Hey, could be, right?



Yup. Sun means Bullsnake. Scared the bejeebees out of each other.


More little flycatchers, most of them pewees maybe, hanging around
with Blue-gray Gnatcatchers.

Also about this morning:
American Robin
Great-blue Heron
Wood Duck
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Chipping Sparrows
American Goldfinch
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Bullock's Oriole
The tiniest of Peeps (looked just like a Spotted Sandpiper only teeny)
Osprey
House Wren
Cormorant
One rogue farm goose
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Red-winged Blackbird
Grrrrrackle


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