Dateline: 28 January 2023
From this past Saturday, a BirdingPI.com winter resident favorite – several Tufted Titmouse individuals along the Ridge and Sidewalk Trails, Presque Isle State Park. Maybe it’s Tufted Titmice? Tufted Titmouses?
Dateline: 29 January 2023
Rainy Sunday in the greater Erie, PA area. With the patchy snow, American Robin and European Starling were out in force.
Bad weather for photography has never stopped BirdingPI.com before. All shots Millcreek Twp (“Gateway to Presque Isle”).
Taking advantage of rose hips on wintry multiflora rose:
Couple of European Starling:
Dateline: 28-29 January 2023.
Saturday: overcast and quite cold in the morning, clearing to mostly sunny by the afternoon, then rain overnight; report to follow. Sunday: rain; all BirdingPI.com Presque Isle State Park operations cancelled. Local, gloomy Millcreek Twp (“Gateway to Presque Isle”) content to follow, but first up, spying on a Fox Squirrel in the rain:
BirdingPI.com – like watching water drip:
From earlier in January, a lone Red-breasted Merganser (m) on Presque Isle Bay. Overcast and somewhat backlit = erratic exposure, but still fun to see this bird on the back bay. (More often seen out on Lake Erie proper.)
Probably BirdingPI.com’s last major coverage of Great Black-backed Gull for the season, absent the unexpected. First up, random gulls!
Gloom/overcast notwithstanding, pretty cool video featuring noisy GB-bG – both adult and juvenile (1st/2nd winter):
Bonus video:
It’s “bonus bad goose video” Friday! Wow.
Taking a break from the gull coverage with recent shots of a male Downy Woodpecker along the access trail to boat landing #4, Long Pond, Presque Isle State Park.
Overcast, cold, and snowy in the greater Erie, PA area since Tuesday; looks like it will continue into next week. Wishing everyone a nice weekend! #more_gull #more_waterfowl
Ring-billed Gull @ Marina Lake, from last Saturday:
More Great Black-backed Gull and gull friends from the other Saturday, Presque Isle State Park, Beach 11.
Great Black-backed Gull adults on the right:
Mixed gulls – Great Black-backed Gull right rear (adult and juvenile), Ring-billed Gull front corner right, the others include Herring Gull:
Mixed gulls – good size comparison between GB-bG (center) and Ring-billed Gull (center foreground):
Large gull on left – Great Black-backed Gull juvenile, 1st/2nd winter:
More GB-bG:
In flight, lower right:
Bonus video content!
Good news! More GB-bG content to come from this past weekend, including ‘gull sounds’ and carrion scavenging! Wow.