Post-Rain Adventures still Continue with One Shorebird

                                                          Pine Siskin atop Bradford Pear

                                              Yellow-rumped Warbler in Northern Catalpa


102619

0822-0929/48-50 F/clear/NW-7/87-86% RH/29.80-29.83 Hg and falling

After two solid days of rain, it was certainly necessary to get out for a while to look for birds, as I knew they would be out there.  On the water we had both Pied-billed and Horned Grebes, the American Coot, Ring-billed Gulls, Ruddy Ducks, and a few Double-crested Cormorants with most of them heading south.

Songbirds comprised large numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers, a half dozen Eastern Bluebirds,  a few Pine Siskins with a couple of fall plumaged American Goldfinches, several Chipping Sparrows,  and last but not least a Savannah and a White-crowned Sparrow.  The Carolina Chickadees were there as a welcoming committee, but no unusuals were there...yet.

                                                                Greater Yellowlegs



102719

0815-0934/50-55 F/clear/SE-9/83-8-% RH/29.72 Hg and steady to 29.81 Hg and rising

Today there were both the Bewick's and Carolina Wrens, American Goldfinch, Western Meadowlark,
38 Yellow-rumped Warblers with most of them in the air, my first Dark-eyed Junco of the season staring me down in a tree, and the Greater Yellowlegs that I saw from Heron Cove.  It was so far away, I thought that I had a yellowlegs or Solitary Sandpiper, so I had to go see for myself what was among the ten Killdeer.