Wow, the generally temperate Finger Lakes Region has been burning up this summer, though not quite the way Northern California has been. We’re all feeling the impact of one of the hottest summers on record in big swaths of the United States and beyond. Forget how about how you’re holding up… how are the birds doing?
The more exotic shorebirds that frequent the Rochester area have successfully eluded me for yet another region. Luckily, I could enjoy a glimpse of common yet adorable Killdeer chicks, which you may struggle to see in the photo above. Killfawns! Corey spent the weekend in lovely Chenango County out in the wilds of of the Susquehanna Valley. His Best Bird of the Weekend was a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker that had turned a crabapple tree into its personal convenience store. There didn’t seem to be a single square inch of the tree that didn’t have a drill hole!
How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
Though not the weekend proper, I finally got back into the Wissahickon (a huge and lovely slice of nature in Philadelphia) late last week and was treated to a Great Blue Heron foraging in, and flying from, the Creek. I don’t care how many times I see it, a GBH in flight never fails to take my breath away.