Erie County weekend weather forecast: sunny Saturday, rainy Sunday. Hopefully a great day for birding/nature tomorrow!
Before moving on to Long Pond from last weekend, here’s some fun shots of blue-headed Mallards off Leo’s Landing. Fun fact: depending on age and time of year, males will display varying colours of classic green, black, mottled, or as here, dark blue or purple-blue:
Over to Long Pond w/ the view(s) at Boat Landing 5, starting w/ 2 Bald Eagles in a distant tree (one on right, one upper left slightly obscured):
Lots of Dark-eyed Junco activity. Following two shots include ‘bird on ground’ and ‘bird in flight,’ the latter being background/blurry, but still good examples of the distinctive white side tail feathers = a great way to ID these fast-moving birds in the field:
Following shots all Dark-eyed Junco:
Finally, just to get the weekend off to a good “birdy start,” here’s bonus Ruby-crowned Kinglet w/ flowers:
