It was soo hot, we had to close the windows and turn on the air conditioning. Cold front roaring through tonight. Back down into the seventies tomorrow. Meanwhile, all the highways in
We had a pack of dowitchers feeding along the end of the pond this morning, then a spoonbill flew over, then a kingfisher, then a merlin. We decided to make a day list for Gulf Waters; what we could see from inside our park, including the end of the boardwalk. A pied billed grebe showed up. A pair of mottled ducks. Piping plover. Dunlin. Laughing gulls circled, calling. Forster’s tern circled, then crashed into the pond in front of us, after minnows. 26 birds in all.
A half hour at Paradise Pond tonight yielded couch’s kingbird, scissortail flycatcher, orange crowned, yellow rumped, and nashville warblers, northern parula, and yellow throated warbler (our first there of the season).
