Late August Birding

Week of August 23, a very hot and humid week. I went to Kains Woods and Springbank Park this week.  

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Great Egret

Great Blue Heron

The Red-tailed Hawk was comfortable on the tree until the black birds started dive-booming it.

Red tailed Hawk

Northern Flicker

This Green Heron was in the middle of the river on a fallen tree far away.  I used my bins to look at the gulls and that's how I spotted the heron.  Just looking without the bins, one would not know it was there.

Green Heron

Double-crested Cormorant

September 1, 2021 - I went to the Uplands North Wetland to see what was there.  The water is very low with some mudflats.  There was a number of sandpiper species - Solitary Sandpipers, Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Killdeer, Semipalmated Plovers and Semipalmated Sandpipers.

I saw 2 Great Blue Herons, a Green Heron and 2 Great Egrets.

Green Heron

There were 2 Great Egrets and one Great Blue Heron at one pond.  The two Great Egrets were flying around like chasing each other and landed where the Great Blue Heron was.  The Great Blue Heron chased the Egrets away but they returned and the 3 were chasing each other at one part of the pond.  I don't know if they were just playing and chasing each other or the Heron really didn't like the Egrets near his section of the pond.