Saturday morning at Huntley Meadows (8-11 AM) found many parent red-winged
blackbirds, E. wood pewees, and E. phoebes stuffing delicious morsels into the
waiting beaks of wing-fluttering, demanding fledglings.
Visitors had nice looks at a perched adult bald eagle from the observation
platform, as well as an osprey circling overhead. The bufflehead remains in the
"big pond" which also held both greater and lesser yellowlegs, at least one
semipalmated plover, a killdeer and a solitary sandpiper. Barn swallows and
chimney swifts dominated, but shared the air with a number of purple martins
that
seemed to show up a bit later in the morning. A lot of goldfinch activity
seems to be going on, and we heard yellow-billed cuckoos several times, but
never
got a look at the elusive singers. The same was true of indigo buntings. But
the surprise star of the morning was a Baltimore oriole, perched silently high
on a tree just north of the boardwalk.
Leni Friedman
Arlington
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