073022 Muskogee Edition, Birding Today

073022 SNP Edition, Life At Boomer Lake

https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/lifestyles/life-at-boomer-lake-the-songs-and-calls-of-area-birds/article_c613f048-0eae-11ed-a662-537651777323.html?utm_source=stwnewspress.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Flists%2Fheadlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1659182403&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline 

072322 Muskogee Edition, Birding Today

https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/lifestyles/birding-today-variety-of-sparrows-live-in-oklahoma/article_226ce0c4-920c-5a50-8db7-859da0469203.html 

072322. SNP Edition, Life At Boomer Lake

https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/lifestyles/life-at-boomer-lake-getting-young-birds-ready-to-move/article_e3bc6d2e-093a-11ed-a518-67fdf2f0e1cc.html 

071722 SNP Edition, Life At Boomer Lake

https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/lifestyles/life-at-boomer-lake-identifying-rare-or-frequent-birds/article_2af2c81c-03b1-11ed-885c-b37b3a20cca5.html 

071622 Muskogee Edition, Birding Today

https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/birding-today-final-attempt-to-protect-ivory-billed-woodpecker-habitat/article_28f07b88-7448-59c6-babc-7fd12636bc03.html 

Original Article:

https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/lifestyles/birding-today-ivory-billed-woodpecker-may-or-may-not-be-extinct/article_432c4933-0625-5adf-9527-b0f919600ba2.html

071022 The Express-Star, Birding Today

https://www.chickashanews.com/news/birding-today-birds-sensitive-to-changes-in-climate/article_56ffb2bd-6e43-53fa-9082-367bbc409b18.html 

071022 SNP Edition, Life At Boomer Lake

https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/lifestyles/life-at-boomer-lake-younger-birds-are-out-and-about/article_6bbc5b5c-fe4c-11ec-bd1c-77ca59df96ef.html 

070422 Worth the Waiting For the Best of Nature to Show

 070422                                           Barn Swallow Female Adult (Bottom)

                                                              Barn Swallow Juvenile (Top)

The moms had the kids out and they were stretching their wings, as well as being fed. There were eleven Barn Swallows out today, which were mostly young ones.  Fortunately, I got a couple of nice photo ops for this holiday.

        

                                                           Closeup of Juvenile Barn Swallow

With the position of the young bird in the top photo, we see a lot more down, but it is the same bird.  I believe this one is the youngest bird I have photographed as a photographer.

                                                              Female Downy Woodpecker

Either I followed the woodpeckers or they followed me.  I saw both the mother and the young male progeny, but her photo is the best out of the two.

                                                                Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

This is the first sighting of the gnatcatcher this year.  It is nice having them close to home.  Luckily, this is the year that my overgrown hotspot is really producing as a second growth riparian area, though there are some older trees here, too.

                                                              Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Same area netted this beauty, which I knew was around, as it was heard.

                                               dark morph female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Plenty of butterflies out today.  This one gave a great viewing the moment that I saw it, so speed was necessary on getting this shot.

0655-0810/80-84 F (heat index 76-86)/partly cloudy/ESE5-S9/71-69% RH/29.98 Hg and steady - 29.98 Hg and rising 

070322 Muskogee Edition, Birding Today

https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/lifestyles/birding-today-warbler-returns-to-previous-territory/article_023d26af-d71a-568a-8f68-2802e0cc82d4.html 

070322 SNP Edition, Life At Boomer Lake