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!

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:
















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






