In The Marsh

After a lovely Friday, it’s a heavy, warm rain this Saturday morning in Erie County, PA. With BirdingPI.com field operations on “weather hold,” here’s the ‘flip side’ to yesterday’s spider/etc. post – birds on the Marsh Trail @ Presque Isle State Park:

Marsh Trail, early evening
Yellow Warbler takes flight
Baltimore Oriole w/ bug
Great Crested Flycatcher, rear view
Common Grackle
Yellow Warbler II
OIF II
Great Crested Flycatcher, profile
Northern Flicker in flight
Distant summertime clouds
Warbler III
More NFIF
OIF III
Portrait of Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird

Sequence of Eastern Kingbird nest:

(Identified as Eastern Kingbird nest based on an Eastern Kingbird landing on it at one point.)

Rose bloom detail I
Purple Martin I
Rose bloom detail II
Purple Martin II
Rose bloom detail III
Purple Martin III