Let’s check in on some of our local wildlife. I had a chance to get out to see who was out and about a couple times over the last few days.
Either the painted turtles opened their convention, or they’re waiting for a couple more to show up to make a baseball team. Canada geese were coming and going all morning. And, of course, geese can neither come nor go quietly…. Canada geese were coming and going all morning. There were a handful of sandpipers working through the reeds. Here, a solitary sandpiper stopped briefly in the clear. Grackles are in good supply this year. Even they looked sharp in the morning sun. Here’s one not gracking. And now gracking…. The resident loons spent their morning inspecting the real estate around the pond. They gave a long look at last year’s nesting site before heading off to see what else was available. On another outing, I found the marsh along the river a busy place. There are usually a handful of marsh wrens around, often heard and occasionally seen. On my visit they had a much larger presence. There were probably 40 or 50 of them chattering away and I spotted a dozen nests. They were darting about the reeds. Wrens are very acrobatic while moving around in the reeds. Wrens pull the fluff out of last year’s cattails to line their nests. On another outing, I found the marsh along the river a busy place. There are usually a handful of marsh wrens around, often heard and occasionally seen. On my visit they had a much larger presence. There were probably 40 or 50 of them chattering away and I spotted a dozen nests. They were darting about the reeds. On another outing, I found the marsh along the river a busy place. There are usually a handful of marsh wrens around, often heard and occasionally seen. On my visit they had a much larger presence. There were probably 40 or 50 of them chattering away and I spotted a dozen nests. They were darting about the reeds. There were several sandpipers about. This solitary sandpiper was getting too sandy…. And took a bath to clean up…. Then told everyone about it…. The red-wing blackbirds are well along in building their nests. That didn’t stop the guys from telling us about it from the highest cattails. Charles, the chipping sparrow, looked pretty dapper. And a pair of veerys were foraging along the bank.
