New Birds at Peninsula State Park, 05/02/10

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 4:53 pm  
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“Although I didn’t see a lot of different species, I did get some very good shots of the ones I saw. :)”

From Birds at Peninsula, 05/02/2010, posted by Karin Hankwitz on 5/04/2010 (14 items)

Two swans performing their mating dance in the bay by Weborg Marsh. It was a very int…
A cute little Chipping Sparrow hops atop a boulder in the Weborg Point picnic area.
An extremely friendly male Palm Warbler sat right next to me in a maple tree, allowin…


I had been led to this tree by his call. Needless to say, I learned what the Palm War…
We were MAYBE 10 ft apart at this point, and he seemed completely unfazed by my prese…
The Palm Warbler is not only unique for its coloring, but perhaps even more telling i…
Palm Warbler


A new addition to my Life List, this Sora was hiding in the cattails in Weborg Marsh,…
Right after I snapped this picture, he took off, and pretty much couldn’t trip over h…
Another cute and VERY LOUD Chipping Sparrow clung to a hump of last year’s dead catta…
The Chipping Sparrow, looking at me.


A really nice shot of the Chipping Sparrow, showing its head and shoulder coloring ve…
A Chickadee landed RIGHT NEXT TO ME on the Hemlock Trail sign at the trailhead, by We…


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Other birds seen or heard but not photographed:

  • 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers (Weborg Marsh)
  • 1 Black-Throated Green Warbler (Weborg Marsh)
  • Multiple White-Throated Sparrows (Weborg Point)
  • Multiple Yellow-Rumped (Myrtle) Warblers (Weborg Point)
  • 1 Brewers Blackbird (Weborg Point)
  • Multiple Red-Winged Blackbirds (including 1 female, Weborg Marsh)
  • 3 Turkey Vultures

Weborg Point Warblers

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 pm  
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Memorial Day Weekend has arrived, and I look around at the bevy of people around me thinking, “if you only knew, this whole landscape was BROWN a month ago. We didn’t even have LEAVES 2 weeks ago!”

Nothing has really changed between Thursday (pre-weekend) and Friday (officially the weekend) — the weather is still sort of crummy (50′s and cloudy more often than not) and there is no magic “feeling” of anything, marking the significance of one day to the next.

Sea of Blue Forget-Me-Nots

Sea of Blue Forget-Me-Nots

But what has changed is the magical flourishing of green upon the landscape; everything has literally just sprung to life. It is truly boggling, and amazing, and beautiful. And with it has come a full-court press of Little Birds. What has felt like a slooooooooowwwwwww process this spring (I never did see any teals, wigeons, shovelers, etc.?) has finally truly picked up steam. :)

Perfect still evening on the Bay

Perfect still evening on the Bay

I took my sandwich and salad from the Northern Grill down to Peninsula State Park, and picked Weborg Point as the most likely place to have some wildlife/bird activity. It was perfect! Seriously, if I could enjoy a simple sandwich at Weborg Point every day for the rest of my life, my life would be utterly complete. It is impossible to improve upon perfection!

View of the Strawberry Channel from my picnic table

View of the Strawberry Channel from my picnic table

A few flittery warblers caught my eye over where another couple was eating. The birds were a few feet too close for my 10×50′s, but were too far to make out with the naked eye. So I obligingly ate while admiring the gorgeous view across the bay and Strawberry Channel.

But then, a couple of bites into my burger, I saw several gazillion warblers in the trees over my head and behind me! Gack! I unceremoniously shoved a couple more bites in my mouth, snapped the lid shut (warbler poop on my sandwich did not appeal, no matter how pretty the birds are) and grabbed my binocs. And watched the show. Read the rest of this entry