Along The Duck Pond

The Duck Pond Trail at Presque Isle State Park might be the most poorly named trail there. Only one end is anywhere near a “duck pond,” and even that portion’s lacking much of a view + mostly muddy/impassible. However, it’s a nice walk in the woods and sometimes good for birds, as shown here from a recent afternoon in late summer:

BJIF
Common Yellowthroat (immature male)
Shady Lincoln’s Sparrow
Shady Gray Catbird!
Blue Jay II
Yellowthroat II

Really nice sighting of Lincoln’s Sparrow, soon to be re-named Buff-breasted Sparrow (or something like that, hopefully):


Rear view, Blue Jay
More Yellowthroat
BJ IV
More Buff-breasted Sparrow

Hard to capture the magnitude photographically, but lots (!) of Robin activity on this date (several dozen+ = migratory activity):

American Robin
Final Jay
Beautiful Buff-breasted Sparrow