A “Long” Time Ago…

Dateline: 4 October 2025

Going back two weeks to digital photographs at Leo’s Landing @ Presque Isle State Park, w/ some interesting migratory and non-migratory bird activity.

Distant Bald Eagle

Unusual sighting (at any time of year) of Orange-crowned Warbler (immature); note the gray head, yellow body, faint broken eye-ring w/ line:

Orange-crowned Warbler

Also unusual for October, a Yellow Warbler:

Yellow Warbler

And plenty of Yellow-rumped Warbler activity:

Shady Yellow-rumped Warbler
Mourning Dove
Yellow-rumped Warbler II
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Orange-crowned Warbler II
Yellow-rumped Warbler III
Orange-crowned Warbler III
Sapsucker II
Yellow-rumped Warbler IV
Eastern Phoebe
Yellow Warbler II
Yellow-rumped Warbler V
Mourning Dove II
Yellow-rumped Warbler VI
Great Egret on the sandbar
Yellow-rumped Warbler VII
Great Egret w/ gulls
Probably Swamp Sparrow
Great Egret w/ Ring-billed Gulls
Yellow-rumped Warbler VIII
Not a duck
Great Egret IV
Swamp Sparrow II
Killdeer
Great Egret V
Yellow-rumped Warbler IX
American Crow takes flight
Yellow-rumped Warbler X (w/ snack)
ACIF
This post is now in the rear view

As forecast, rain early this morning in Erie County, Pennsylvania, transitioning now to mixed clouds/sun. Should be a nice day for birding/nature. Tomorrow: rain.

[Editor’s note: on the duck box above is Belted Kingfisher. (Duck box is probably intended as a ‘birdhouse’ for Wood Ducks.)]