As the weathers been terrible the last few days and migration is almost at an end for the season I packed up the blind and stashed it away until the fall. As I haven't been doing much the last week I decided to post a few of my all-time favorite shots from the waterfall.
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Hermit Thrush |
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Black and White Warbler |
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| Scarlet Tanager |
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| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
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| Brown Thrasher |
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| Northern Flicker |
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| Baltimore Oriole |
After a session at the waterfall this morning I left the camera in the blind if I decided to go out in the evening which I did. It's been in the high 80's Fahrenheit this afternoon and when I went out just after 5pm the blind was like a sauna. It was bit slow at first but Canada Warbler dropping in was special. Shortly after by a Warbling Vireo which is a photography first. This might be the last waterfall session until the fall as it's going to be in the high 90's for a few days then 7-10 days of rain and showers by which time migration should be over and it will be too hot to sit in the blind. I'll switch to flowers and butterflies.
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Warbling Vireo |
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| Warbling Vireo |
I seem to remember a movie with the same title from the dim distant past. Yeah this is nothing like it.
There seemed to be a bit of activity last night at the waterfall and as the light wasn't too bad I popped out for a bit. It got darker quite quickly so I had to drop my shutter speed down to 1/250s to prevent the ISO getting too high. Apart from a puzzling female warbler I was happy that the Eastern Kingbird came down for a bit of fly catching. When it got too dark I came in to try and figure out the warbler.
Sunday Morning. Overnight there were over 2.2 million migrant birds overflying Lebanon County but 4.2 million bird overflying Lancaster County directly due South of Lebanon. Does this mean that 2 million birds dropped into Lebanon? Merlin reported a fair amount of activity early morning and the light was pretty good, bright but high level diffuse clouds prevent the sun breaking through. I went out for a bit and wasn't disappointed. I did miss a stunning Blackburnian by being to eager to point the lens towards him, damnit!
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Eastern Kingbird |
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| American Goldfinch |
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| Blue Jay |
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| Song Sparrow |
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| Wood Thrush |
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| Yellow Warbler |
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| Magnolia Warbler |
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| Magnolia Warbler |
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| Magnolia Warbler |
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| Indigo Bunting |
Yesterday afternoon I popped over to Middle Creek as the afternoon was pretty good light with lots of nice clouds to diffuse the afternoon sunlight. Theres a new pond along the Wildlife Drive, it's more what I would call a wader scrape rather than a pond but whatever you call it's attracting some nice birds. Lots of waders/shorebirds including a Wilsons Phalarope and Cattle Egret recently. As Ive seen both many times and I gave up on lists years ago I never bothered to head over to see them. Needless to say I never saw either because they'd probably gone. I did a couple of loops around the Lake/Wildlife Drive and got a few close shots of a Killdeer and a Mockingbird searching for grubs to feed the chicks. Lots of Tree Swallows in the nesting boxes. I really wanted to get a nice shot of a Bobolink, I saw several close ones but never came close to getting a shot.
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| Northern Mockingbird |
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| Killdeer |
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| Killdeer |
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| Killdeer |
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| Tree Swallow |
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| Gray Catbird |
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| Gray Squirrel |
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| Gray Squirrel |
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| Common Yellowthroat |
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| American Redstart |
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| American Redstart |
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| Eastern Kingbird |
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| Eastern Kingbird |
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| Scarlet Tanager |
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| Scarlet Tanager |
It was only in the low 40's last night and quite chilly so it was long sleeves and jeans when I went out this morning. I did a bit of work in the yard this afternoon, got all hot and sweaty so showered to cool off and changed to shorts and a tee before I headed out to the blind. It was a bit slow but the Swamp Sparrow got me going for a while, the Indigo Bunting didn't stay long before he was scared off by a Robin.
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| Common Grackle |
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| Mourning Dove |
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| Northern Cardinal |
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| House Finch |
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| Indigo Bunting |
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| Swamp Sparrow |
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| Swamp Sparrow |
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| Swamp Sparrow |
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| Swamp Sparrow |
