Dateline: 17-18 August 2024, Weekend Update
This return to Presque Isle State Park brought to you by gluten free Butterfinger(R) bar – now featuring “Added colors from real sources:”
After several weeks of ‘summer hiatus,’ finally able to lure a BirdingPI.com team back out to Gull Point on Saturday with promises of free candy. Erie weather: highly unsettled, warm/humid Saturday morning/early PM turning to rain/thunderstorms, then on/off scattered rain Sunday into a rainy/cool/overcast Monday morning. Trail conditions: locally slightly wet/muddy. Presque Isle bird activity: fairly light inland activity, more-or-less normal/as expected @ Gull Point: lots of Canada Goose, gull, & Double-crested Cormorant activity, + sightings of Black-bellied Plover, Short-billed Dowitcher, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Sanderling, Spotted Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, & Common Tern:
More Presque Isle weekend shorebirds coming up soon. In the meantime, it’s nature content from a ‘break in the weather’ at Leo’s Landing Sunday afternoon:
Great to see plenty of Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) + Common Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) activity:
Happy to be back in the land of Fox Squirrel & Gray Catbird!
Coming up eventually, squirrels/critters in Arizona!
This Team Member is very glad the Team Leader is back home! The Team has been waiting for ‘added colors’ to supplement our “Mars Bars,” which do not have ‘added colors!’
We skipped the walk to Gull Point, as we had a sugar high and couldn’t walk!
Good job, Team Leader, on you Monarch shots with thistle. No added colors there!