Another early morning, beat-the-heat trek out to Gull Point at Presque Isle State Park.
First, not at Presque Isle, but a female House Finch in the grass, Millcreek Twp (“Gateway to Presque Isle”):
From a previous time, a female Common Grackle near Budny Beach:
Here’s a solitary sandpiper, probably a Spotted Sandpiper (<– it’s a bird joke):
Next, a couple of nice ‘profile’ shots of Red-winged Blackbird, out at the point mudflats:
Closer shot of a Spotted Sandpiper, for the record:
Nothing unusual out at the point. Blackbird, Starling, Spotted Sandpiper, gulls, sparrows, Mallard, Canada Geese, Killdeer, GBH, Green Heron, Baltimore Oriole, Gray Catbird, Downy Woodpecker, and so on. However, in plant news, the lovely Common Yucca is starting to bloom:
See Common Yucca in the sandy area close to the entrance to the Gull Point mud flats roped-off corridor (follow the old trail fifty feet or so to the west to the first Gull Point marker sign).
Closing it out with a series of cute shots of a lovely Yellow Warbler (male), along the Gull Point outer old trail:
