Weekend Update II

It’s part 2 of Presque Isle State Park weekend content, w/ continuing shots of a loop hike to Gull Point Saturday late morning. As usual this time of year, lots of Double-crested Cormorants flying in/out:

View north outer Lake Erie w/ Cormorants flying east
White-throated Sparrow

Bird of the weekend,” lots of Yellow-rumped Warbler everywhere there were trees & brush, e.g., here in the willows along the beach close to outer Gull Point:

Nice sequence of foraging behavior w/ insect caught in spider’s web:


Gull Point, view east w/ old observation platform
Outer Gull Point, Black-bellied Plover (l) + Killdeer (right, behind log)

“Bird of the day,” always nice to see Eastern Meadowlark, here popping up briefly from the grass at outer Gull Point to reposition elsewhere in the grass:

Nice view from outer Gull Point, looking generally west, of a lagoon + tree line:


Heading back on the ‘inland’/’official’ trail, w/ more Yellow-rumped Warbler & a nice sighting of Field Sparrow on the rope fence:

Yellow-rumped Warbler
Field Sparrow I
Sparrow II