Went over to the Rookery over at Big Island today to check in on the Herons...Sounds like a hundred guttural sounding tree frogs up in the tops of the trees waiting to be fed.  Each nest had at least three chicks in them at different stages of cuteness.  Some of the bigger nests had five.

I couldn't relocate the Pileated, too many filled out trees to find it now.  But there were three pair of Red Heads fighting for territory.

There were several (+/- 6) Great Creasted Flycatchers dancing through the woods as well as a few gnatcatchers.

Baltimore Orioles were present as well. I counted three just in the small area that I was in.

As I was coming back over to the ponds, I spotted a Kingfisher hopping between the trees.

And as I was walking along the dike back towards the handicap blind, I was treated to the sight of a Ruby Throated Hummingbird sucking away at some flowers.

Now for what surprised me.  As I was wading in to the Rookery area I was just listening to the sounds of the birds around me when I heard a sound that was music to my ears....  SWEET.SWEET.SWEET.SWEET...I looked and sure enough, there right in front of me was a male Prothonotary Warbler.  With another calling off in the distance.  The area is perfect for breeding so hopefully they are attracting some females to the area as well.  It looks just like area N at Hoover Res. but with lots of natural cavities.

The other warbler find of the day was a Common Yellow Warbler fluttering between cottonwoods and one of the grassy fields.


That's about it.


Happy birding and God bless

Steve
(a.k.a. sjlarue)

Matthew 6:25-27

 25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

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