Belle Isle Marsh spring

                                                                     More from spring

                                                                   Tree Swallow

                                                          Snowy Egret with prey

                                                                   Yellow Warbler

                                                                     Northern Flicker

Tree Swallows and others of spring

More from spring

                                                      Black-crowned Night Heron

                                                 American Eel at Belle Isle Marsh

                                                      Osprey pair at Belle Isle Marsh

                                                                     Hermit Thrush

                                                             Yellow-shafted Flicker

                                                              Red-winged Blackbird

                                                                    Turkey Vulture

                                                                    Glossy Ibis

                                                                     Palm Warbler

                                                              Pectoral Sandpiper

                                                                     BCNH

                                                                 Eastern Bluebird

American Oystercatchers & Migration

A few pictures of the American Oystercatcher pair, female with band #25.  Other than thoese guys. lots of other birds on the move. There has been a steady stream of Kinglets, Flickers, and Palm Warblers moving through the yard. Piping Plovers have returned to our local beaches, and raptor migration is starting to pick up as they head north to breeding grounds.

                                                         Golden-crowned Kinglet

                                                               American Kestrel - female

                                                                       Palm Warbler

                                                             Red-breasted Nuthatch

                                                            Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Spring

A few Fox Sparrows in the yard the the first returning Greater Yellowlegs.