The highly variable weather continued apace this past weekend in Erie County, PA – overcast and chilly on Saturday, steady rain turning to ‘wintery mix’ on Sunday, light freezing rain Monday, etc. Warm enough overall, however, for most of the snow and much of the lake ice to have subsided/melted. At Presque Isle State Park, plenty of waterfowl and gull activity, otherwise very localized/variable.
Saturday at Long Pond, the beautiful resident Pekin + Mallards:
Finally, despite the challenging lighting/exposure conditions, fun to see a lovely Belted Kingfisher in for a landing, appropriately enough at Leo’s Landing:
With the recent, unseasonably warm/wet weather, Presque Isle trail conditions are mostly locally muddy and wet, but accessible and snow/ice free. Gull Point ‘inner’ official trail: muddy/wet but passable; Gull Point ‘outer’ official trail: in good shape. Outer Gull Point: mostly snow/ice free except in a couple spots along the beach.
[* Editor’s note: clearly too intrepid to be BirdingPI.com staff.]
Huh? What does that mean? This staff member is ‘too intrepid?”
Wasn’t that a Star Trek space ship???
Back to the pub!