August 18th to 19th 2008
The last two days at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve have been extremely active with birds. We took our usual walk around the Salwein Creek Loop and were absolutely amazed at the amount of birds that we saw.
There were several species of Flycatchers with young chasing them through the trees and across the pathways in front of us. They would stop and be terribly cute; they are a bird that we find hard to resist.
Northern Red-shafted Flickers and Downy Woodpeckers paused long enough for us to get some photos.
A female Red-winged Blackbird gathered insects for a young fledgling. We watched them in the Cattails behind the East Bird Blind.
A young Great Blue Heron stopped on the log on the lagoon for a photo opportunity.
Damselflies are one of the favourite foods of a lot of the songbirds.
A fledgling Song Sparrow posed for a moment near the edge of the path.
American Robins are pretty much everywhere, there are so many that it is hard to go far without seeing them.
Wood Ducks of varying ages were on logs and behind the East Bird Blind.
Cedar Waxwings were also busy everywhere we went.
Evening Grosbeaks sat around the Red Osier Dogwoods looking for the berries.
Swainson’s Thrushes are also quite interested in the berries of the Red-Osier Dogwood.
Warblers, Warblers, Warblers! Wow! Black-throated Grey Warblers, Orange-crowned Warblers, Common Yellowthroats, Yellow Warblers and Wilson’s Warblers, everywhere we looked there were Warblers.
Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos were stars of the last two days.
We had a nice chat with Bill Clark, Dick and Walter on Monday and Janet, Jean, Marilyn, Val and Dale on Tuesday. We are really looking forward to our next walk around the Salwein Creek at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve.
We are not authorities on birds, wildlife, plants, cameras or photography, if you are doing research on any subjects, please refer to a more educational site for advice and double-check whatever you research.
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