What better way to celebrate the forthcoming Erie weekend than with bad bird photos from last weekend? OTOH, it’s Ruddy Turnstone at Gull Point from Saturday! Not necessarily uncommon, but still a BirdingPI.com first at that location! Very nice.
ID tips: medium shorebird (smaller than Killdeer); orange legs (visible in 5th shot below); short but slightly upturned bill; wide black ‘bib;’ unique white top wing stripes/pattern visible on flying birds (e.g., see bottom shot below).
[Note: smaller BIF in shots above probably Least Sandpiper. “BIF” = birds in flight.]
Erie County weather forecast: Saturday and Sunday, moderate temps and partly sunny, should be nice.
Presque Isle State Park trail conditions: with recent rain, locally very muddy. Gull Point “inner old” trail potentially muddy/flooded. Long Pond Trail (west end) very muddy.
Bird migration forecast: radar activity and AI models suggest ‘medium’ Erie migration activity this weekend.
Wasn’t BIF a character in Back to the Future???