Dateline: Spring 2022
While the BirdingPI.com team’s getting caffeinated in prep for hitting the trails today (Saturday, 11 June 2022: AM weather in Erie – rain overnight, light overcast), time for a quick, seasonally-appropriate post featuring spring flowers, birds with spring flowers, and a bonus bad bunny video. (Still working on getting shots of rabbits with flowers.)
Above and below, forgot to include these quite nice shots of Ruby-throated Hummingbird x Yellow Iris in the last weekend update. From the Gull Point inner old trail, by the head of Thompson Bay.
From a bit earlier in the spring, BirdingPI.com’s favorite yellow-orange bird, the Baltimore Oriole. Enjoying crabapple (?)/apple blossoms along the Gull Point outer old trail:
Officially wild iris season. See Yellow Iris above. Blue Iris in the following shots, first from the Pine Tree Trail swamp/pond, and second along the Sidewalk Trail (east end by the swamp/pond crossing).
Beautiful Lupinus perennis – Wild Lupine. Fairly uncommon at Presque Isle State Park and (per the Internet = never wrong) relatively rare in Pennsylvania generally. One spot to see Wild Lupine at PI is Pine Tree Meadows. (Fields across the road from the Pine Tree Trail west trailhead.)
Many, many trees currently in blossom with fragrant, white flowers, e.g., around Budny Beach area and elsewhere = probably Black Locust aka False Acacia. Native to North America, perhaps invasive to Presque Isle. Lovely nevertheless.
Finally, nothing more spring-ish than bunnies, with a birdsong soundtrack no less. From the Pine Tree Trail. (Best place to see rabbits at PI – Budny Beach east parking area in the very early AM.)
[Photo Editor’s note: shots above of hummingbird with yellow iris were in the shade. Increasing the brightness and exposure in basic post-production (for the hummingbird to be better lit) resulted in overexposure of the iris. Need to get this over to the Photoshop department for a bit more work…]