Off The Deep End

No post yesterday on BirdingPI.com due to bird counting for the Great Backyard Bird Count. (Important to make sure the population is tallied correctly ahead of U.S. mid-term elections later this year.) Should be ok weather this weekend in Erie County, Pennsylvania, including above-freezing air temps, so wishing everyone happy counting!

Looking NE from South Pier towards deep water

Today’s digital photographs are from South Pier the other early, cold morning, mostly looking east towards outer Lake Erie/Thompson Bay, featuring Surf Scoter and a great, if poorly lit, pair of Common Ravens:

“Pair of Common Ravens”
Pool of ducks
Male Surf Scoter @ center left
Red-breasted Merganser landing, Surf Scoter on left
Surf Scoter pair
2x Surf Scoter II
Surf Scoters w/ Lesser Scaup & Red-breasted Merganser
More mixed ducks
Pool of ducks II

Here’s a sequence of long-distance shots of a Bald Eagle approaching outer Gull Point:

Note the bird perched on the post @ center – probably Peregrine Falcon
Red-breasted Merganser landing II
View towards outer Lake Erie
Surf Scoter