Petroleum Byproducts

Continuing w/ New Year’s Day 2025 content from Presque Isle State Park, with birds along the Old Gas Well Trail (extending from Waterworks to Marina Lake past the eponymous ‘old gas well’). As previously mentioned, weather was cold, rainy, & windy, but no ground snow.

Black-capped Chickadee

Lots of American Tree Sparrow activity at this location (flock of 12+); nice to get a few shots of one ‘out in the open:’


Lesser Scaup @ Marina Lake
Downy Woodpecker (m)
Belted Kingfisher in flight over Marina Lake
Scaup & Red-breasted Merganser
Downy Woodpecker II
Kingfisher II
Chickadee II
Northern Cardinal (m)
American Tree Sparrow II
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Foraging Woodpecker
Chickadee III
American Tree Sparrow III
Downy Woodpecker IV
ATS4
Chickadee IV
Kinglet, top view
Woodpecker V
White-breasted Nuthatch
The final Woodpecker

Oil’s well that ends well!


East Ave Boat Launch @ Tuesday/ice

In Presque Isle news, w/ the recent cold temps, as of yesterday the back bay (Presque Isle Bay) is mostly frozen over, same for outer Lake Erie around East Ave Boat Launch (see above) & similar locations. Great for “gulls on ice” + waterfowl (in areas of open water).

@ horizon: Gull Point, view from East Ave Boat Launch

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