B(ig) Weekend

Finally posting some content from Global Big Day weekend, on Sunday 11 May 2025 along the B Trail + Dead Pond Trail @ Presque Isle State Park. (B Trail is a relatively short connector between the main park road and the much longer Dead Pond Trail.) Weather was windy, but sunny and very pleasant/mild in sheltered areas.

B Trail
Chipping Sparrows

Really nice, first-of-year sighting of Veery, one of the woodland thrushes:


Another new spring warbler, briefly seen (and poorly photographed) Ovenbird:


Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias) along Dead Pond Trail
Field Sparrows
Purple Martin
Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis)(foreground) + Cypress Spurge (background)
Osprey
Woods along Dead Pond Trail

Sometimes it pays to go off trail. Following warblers/vireos all seen in the woods off Dead Pond Trail (see above + below).

Warbling Vireo
Black-throated Green Warbler
Looking for birds in the woods
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Magnolia Warbler II
Chestnut-sided Warbler (rear view)
Chestnut-sided Warbler III
Dead Pond Trail

Several shots of beautiful Eastern Kingbird:


Chipping Sparrow foraging in grass
Chipping Sparrow III

Rather awful/rainy weather in Erie County the last few days, + unseasonably chilly. Looks like the unsettled/cold weather might continue into the holiday weekend, but ‘fingers crossed’ for great bird activity regardless!

Coming up soon, a Yellow Warbler bath!

Sorry, the bathing warbler just left

3 thoughts on “B(ig) Weekend

  1. Paul Edwards

    Thanks, Team Leader, for your ‘veery’ lovely photos on the Big Bird Day. As always, you were ‘ahead of the pack…”

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