Beautiful weekend at Presque Isle State Park, with sunny/cool weather and dry trail conditions. Bird activity fairly moderate; as always, though, plenty of birds to watch.
These shots from Saturday afternoon at Leo’s Landing, starting w/ Ring-billed Gulls:
“Bird of the weekend” definitely Snow Bunting, spotted both here on Saturday and at Gull Point on Sunday. Qualifies as BirdingPI.com’s ‘earliest fall sighting ever,’ and also our first sighting of this species at PI anywhere other than outer Gull Point. (Following shots Snow Bunting except where noted.)
Also nice to see lots of American Pixie Gulls, a.k.a. Bonaparte’s Gulls:
Here was a Dunlin, furtively trying to make its way on ground through the gulls:
Nice to see a small flock (6+) of foraging Dunlin:
Coming up next time, more Snow Bunting, more gulls, more Dunlin, & return of Mr. Stumpy! #more_bird