Today’s comic kicks off the “Lost Canyon” saga – plenty more to come over the next 9-10 posts. Plus it’s day 2 of Insect Week+, featuring mostly macro shots @105mm of bumble bees in the Bombus genus, e.g., Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) & Brown-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis):
With BirdingPI.com staff out in Arizona, it’s time to kick off “Insect Week+,” featuring, as might be expected, insects in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
“Dragonfly in flight” photography is notoriously difficult, but no trickery here, just an unusually cooperative Spot-winged Glider hovering in place for an extended period @ outer Gull Point:
Different day/location in Erie County, Pennsylvania, an amazing American Dagger Moth (Acronicta americana) caterpillar:
Today, part 2/2 of near outer Gull Point coverage from the other weekend, featuring mostly Yellow Warbler and Eastern Kingbird:
Today on BirdingPI.com, it’s part 2/2 of beautiful American Goldfinch + yellow flowers at Asbury Woods Nature Center, Millcreek Twp, Pennsylvania:
Next week, BirdingPI.com staff is off to sunny/hot Arizona for the Southeast Arizona Birding Festival. With local (Erie Co., PA) bird content on brief hiatus, please look forward to “Insect Week+,” featuring insects and lots of them! (In picture form.) In the meantime, today’s post features shorebirds from the other weekend at inner Gull Point at Presque Isle State Park, w/ Least Sandpiper, Greater & Lesser Yellowlegs, and a Spotted Sandpiper or two. Which are which? You be the judge!
Today on BirdingPI.com, birds at or near outer Gull Point the other weekend at Presque Isle State Park, featuring Northern Yellow Warbler and Eastern Kingbird:
The Eastern Kingbirds were very active @ flycatching behavior, taking advantage of the convenient perches afforded by Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus):
Very nice shots (photographs, that is) of beautiful American Goldfinch at Asbury Woods in Millcreek Twp, Pennsylvania:
Today’s post features perched swallows @ Gull Point rope trail, last Sunday afternoon, Presque Isle State Park, all Northern Rough-winged Swallow unless noted otherwise:
Happy August! Here’s more Great Blue Heron (in chronological order) from last weekend at Presque Isle State Park:
Special double/triple post today; tomorrow’s post will be brief due to field operations.
Presque Isle State Park is popular for many reasons, not the least of which is seasonal sunsets over Lake Erie, as here yesterday evening close to (appropriately enough) Sunset Point. Beforehand, birds at Beach 11, starting with a nice sighting of 3x Semipalmated Plover:
Great Blue Heron @ foraging/wading behavior:
(Whatever this object was – turtle shell? – it was inedible and eventually dropped.)
A nice, if shady, sequence of Spotted Sandpiper catching mayflies along the water line:
More Great Blue Heron foraging behavior:
