Showing posts with label trilliums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trilliums. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2020

Around the 'Hood




Migration is certainly stuck for the most part.  Locally, Peers  Wetland is the only place that has a number of birds.  I checked it  out this morning through 3 cm of snow!  Basically, the same birds from six days ago were present.



The only thing different was a couple of Least Flycatchers, which might have been there anyway.


Also in the flycatcher department, an Eastern Phoebe was looking for non-existent insects.



There have been lots of swallow (300+) at Peers, and needless to say they were disgusted this morning.







A Wilson's Warbler popped up yesterday and I saw it this morning, but it did not want to be photographed.

Yesterday a Black-throated Blue Warbler showed up in the yard.  It was playing in the snow this morning.




A couple of White-crowned Sparrows have been hanging around.  This one has a little extra white on the head.



I stopped by Reid CA yesterday morning after a three day absence.  There was not much of course, but a couple of Ovenbirds were new.  A couple of Black-throated Green Warblers and a handful of Yellow-rumped Warblers (plus 3 Nashville) were around.


Highlight was a Peregrine Falcon which flew overhead and alighted in a tree briefly.  Certainly an oddity!

I also checked out McKeough CA and walked through a wooded area north of the spillway.  It had been a few years since I was in there!  In my early years of birding it was my go-to place and I recall some good days there during migration.  A couple of Ovenbirds were there as well.

I found a patch of Twinleaf at  one point.


Trilliums are all out and one can look for oddities.  I found this one, which shows green in the petals.  It is actually caused by a virus and can vary in the amount of green present.



The Pacific Loon was still at Sarnia yesterday, attracting many birders. Not often one gets to see a  breeding plumaged Pacific up close!


One of these days we will see some action!