Marbled Godwit

On the last Belle Isle Marsh canoe program out to Snake Island in Winthrop we lucked out an hit the jackpot with a Marbled Godwit.

                                                       American Oystercatcher

                                                           Female juv Peregrine

                                                         Short-billed Dowitchers

                                                        Red-breasted Nuthatch

                                                    Black-throated Green Warbler

More catching up

                                                                      Shorebirds

                                                                     Stilt Sandpipers

                                                       Glossy Ibis with Yellowlegs

                                                   Al releasing the Juvie Eagle

                                                               American Lotus

                                                    Juvenile Barn Swallow

                                                              Juvenile Phoebe

                                                             Common Loon

                                                      With young chick on back

Adult Little Blue Heron - Belle Isle

There has been am adult Little Blue Heron hanging around Belle Isle for the past week plus. A really beautiful bird. Since I have been at the reservation we have only had immature birds. The large crowds of Egrets and Herons have started to build in numbers, around 60-100 birds each morning.

Babies & Migration

The shorebirds are starting to trickle in, meanwhile a number of our local breeding species are well on their way into fledgling their first broods.

                                                 Short-billed Dowitcher flock

                                                            Least Tern with chick

                                                           Piping Plover chicks

                                                            Male Scarlet Tanager

                                          Red-tailed Hawk with baby Grackle

                                                           Least Sandpiper

                                                      Short-billed Dowitcher

                                                                 Green Heron