Bundle(s) of Joy

Dateline: 15 June 2025

Back to Presque Isle State Park, with what seemed like a fairly slow day (shorebird wise) at Gull Point Sunday afternoon.

Budny Beach looking towards Gull Point
Outer Gull Point

Slow, that is, except for a great sighting of recently hatched Piping Plover chicks, at least three, possibly four. Always a very happy occasion! Following shots at long distance from new observation platform:

Adult – left; chick – right of center
Adult – left; 3 chicks – 2 to left of adult, 1 on far right
Uncropped view of above @ 600mm (very small/distant)
Another view of adult and 3 chicks

More Piping Plover:

Adult in flight (right of center)
Adult landing by lagoon/pond
Adult foraging waterside
Another view of adult Piping Plover

Some sort of brief altercation w/ two adults and a male Red-winged Blackbird:

Piping Plover (left & in flight center right) + Red-winged Blackbird
Adult PP (left center & lower left) w/ Red-winged Blackbird

Following notice was posted on both observation platforms. Unfortunately, despite looking, couldn’t find/see the crow effigies!

Gull Point, view north from new observation platform

More birds @ outer Gull Point:

Spotted Sandpiper
Turkey Vultures
Ring-billed Gull (?) w/ fish
Vultures II
Spotted Sandpiper flying over Lake Erie

Finally, a nice (if not particularly well lit) sequence of Osprey carrying fish/food:

Osprey carrying food
Osprey harassed by Common Tern
Osprey harassed by blackbird or grackle
Osprey + Common Tern II
Osprey + Common Tern over outer Lake Erie
Osprey lands on marker sign at north outer beach

Coming up soon, more Gull Point nature!

4 thoughts on “Bundle(s) of Joy

    1. admin1 Post author

      Seeing lots of harassment action, both food (chase the bird with the fish) and nesting, e.g., saw a House Wren harass a Downy Woodpecker, along the Gull Point trail Sunday. (No pictures – too many branches, etc.) Best we can figure, the wren must be nesting.

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    1. admin1 Post author

      Lot’s heat shimmer Sunday at Gull Point, so difficult to see distant, small objects. Maybe the crow effigies would be easier to see with a spotting scope.

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