Feeling more spring-y all the time! It was a little dreary today with the clouds, but the temperature was quite nice, as were the birds.
On the way up to meet the group, I enjoyed watching a group of 6 cormorants swimming around together, catching things, and generally being gorgeous. It helped that I had to look past a kinglet to do it. Ah, the riches of spring! Then I saw the coot sitting out on a rock so I got to see it's feet, I'm a little heartbroken that the pictures didn't come out. Coots have amazingly awesome feet!
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| double-crested cormorant |
Met up with the group, and we started seeing cool stuff right away. We saw the first common yellow-throat of the year, and as usual he eluded my camera. Beautiful little guy though. Lots of black-crowned night herons. And some fancy sparrows.
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| song sparrow |
Every time I see a towhee my day gets better.
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| eastern towhee |
Today's star at the feeders was this purple finch.
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| purple finch |
And this yellow-rump, which did not stay around very long at all! What a tease.
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| yellow-rumped warbler |
This rusty blackbird was by the oven. He doesn't know he's famous.
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| rusty blackbird |
This cormorant has more fish than it can handle. It had to let this big fellow go, couldn't manage the swallowing of it.
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| double-crested cormorant |
This heron wants a chance at it!
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| black-crowned night heron |
Making our way back we saw a house wren, and when trying to relocate the wren we saw these field sparrows!
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| field sparrow |
A kinglet saw us off, meeting us briefly at the upper lobe bridge.
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| ruby-crowned kinglet |
As usual I have a post-group bird, this time a brown creeper. And this one allowed a picture, which is rare indeed!
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| brown creeper |
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