What a gorgeous day! Warm but crisp air, lots of sun, and a wonderful walk in the park. Today the Bird of the Day was the lovely Maggie! It really seemed like every time we turned around, there was another one. Some were so vivid, it was really lovely!
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| magnolia warbler |
I love the black-and-white warblers, they look so formal to me. All dressed up, nice and neat.
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| black-and-white warbler |
Some house finches came over, trying to distract us from the warblers.
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| house finch |
This grosbeak came over and sat right over us, like it was surveying its domain.
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| rose-breasted grosbeak |
Meanwhile this downy woodpecker was hard at work! There was sawdust flying.
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| downy woodpecker |
Chimney swifts are particularly difficult to photograph. This is, believe it or not, one of my better efforts.
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| chimney swifts |
This phoebe demonstrated flycatcher behavior to us quite well. They perch, fly around and perch again, right until the time you get used to where they perch, and then they find a new perch, usually not visible.
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| Eastern phoebe |
Brown thrasher! These guys were hard to see, but see them we did. I still remember the first time I saw one, it basically just came over to me for no particular reason, so I took some pictures. I didn't realize at the time how lucky that was!
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| brown thrasher |
Mystery thrush that came by while we were distracted by the brown thrasher. Sorry thrush, next time we will pay more attention to you.
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| mystery thrush |
These two came by way too quickly, just stopping for a few seconds over the water and then moving on.
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| black-throated green warbler, blackpoll warbler |
Check out that streaky back!
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| blackpoll warbler |
This vireo was a joy to watch after all of those warblers. I guess it needed a rest, it stayed perched for us for quite a while.
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| red-eyed vireo |
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