W.W.W.5 Part #1 East Coast Edition -- (April 25 to 28, 2011)
Strange People gathered for the 5th Annual Wicked Warbler Weekend. East Coast edition. Deb and Balcony Birder in VA while #3 birder was having a good time on a honeymoon in California. The West Coast version of WWW5 can be found in the 2011 "Birds an
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4/25/11 - Drove with David and Melissa to Front Royal where Deb picked me up. D&M tented at Shenandoah River State Park in
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4/26/11 - Deb finishes putting up a Purple Martin condo.
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Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof.
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This was 4/26. On 4/30 I got an eMail that three or four Purple Martins had arrived and were checking the place out. Can't wai
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6/18/11 - Purple Martin news!
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Garlic growing in the new bed made with left-overs from the old deck.
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Brown Thrasher - time for a little birding around the property.
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Head, neck and rib cage. Wait a sec! That's not a bird!
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American Goldfinch, male and female
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4/27/11 - At McCormick Mill
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Obligatory curpin
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Shooting Star
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Last Fall when I was here the water was down. It's good to see it up again. The tree is slowly recycling.
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Solitary Sandpiper - The biggest surprise of the whole trip. At home, when I went to crop the picture to enlarge the goose and
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This might be a Sleepy Orange butterfly.
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Spring Beauty
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Wild Geranium
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Marsh Marigold peeking through covering vegetation near a brook.
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Rue Anemone
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Common Violets
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Bird's Eye Speedwell (Veronica persica)
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Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) invasive
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Tree Swallow & male and female Bluebirds
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Leaving the mill.
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At another stop Dogwood is in full bloom
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Buttercup
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Tree Swallow on barbed wire
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back home.... it's time to check on the feeders again
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Downy Woodpecker
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left, male Purple Finch; on the right, female House Finch
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House Finch, male of course
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
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showing why he's called Red-bellied
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Male and female Brown-headed Cowbird
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Titmouse keeping a wary eye on my telescoping camera lens
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A wind-blown White-Crowned Sparrow and a Chippie
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Deb said, "He bit the Aunt that fed him." It still makes me grin. Most excellent pun! :o) Jake definitely not at fa
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Deb's stained glass window. After Ralph bandaged me up, I try to relax and take a few moments to ponder the quotidian vicissitu
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4/27/11 - Spent the day driving all over to find birds. White-throated Sparrow.
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Redbud. It doesn't bother me to say "Redbud", but every time I type it, I feel like it ought to be "redrum"
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Geum - Spring Avens (Geum vernum)
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Dame's Rocket - 4 petal flower, alternate lance leaves. Phlox has opposite leaves.
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I thought this was distinctive enough to be able to research. I thought wrong. Hours afterwards, I'm still clueless.
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Ditto with this box. It seems to me it has a hole big enough for an owl, but what owl wants so little standing room? Am unable
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Bernese Mountain Dog. From Switzerland, named after the city of Bern. Working dogs. Are used to pull carts. Great! Get me on
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Deb wanted to go across this little bridge, but the soggy ground wouldn't let us near it.
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I sit at a secluded picnic table while Deb takes a short side-trip.
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Spruce tree. Maybe Black Spruce.
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Wild Azalea. Always comes in pink.
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Red Admiral - sometimes comes in red
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher approaching his nest.
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher inside of nest. We think they were building it still. There was constant activity back and forth between
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Towhee, male and female. How lucky was that!
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4/28/11 - Left at 6:30. Took 340 up before getting on the north section of Skyline Drive. Made a couple of quick stops and got
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On the drive home, at the Conowingo Dam, crossing the Susquehanna River, was the perfect spot to add a 1st year Bald Eagle.
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