Saturday while helping Argy plant a few flowers in the rain I happened to look up and see what I thought was an American Redstart; after looking carefully through the raindrops. I was sure that it was a male redstart. Not really an usual sighting at all since they are not rare but it had been a while since I had seen one only five feet away. I did not see a female but she must be on a nest not too far away.
Yesterday we were on our walk and heard a pleasant clear bird song high in the oak tree at the end of the road. After looking carefully we could clearly see a red breasted grosbeak on one of the uppermost limbs. We could hear three or four of his compatriots singing all around. Again not an unusual sighting but it has been a while since I had seen one and this was a perfectly lit clear view leaving no doubt about what it was.
Finally this morning I took my parents for a boat ride in the new Lund Alaskan on the Saint George. Since we were on the river I tried for a striper or tow in the usual places. When we rounded a bend in the river we were greeted with a mass of ravens and turkey vultures spiraling up into the sky I maybe fifty birds in all. Again nothing unusual about the species or even the location but to see them all spiraling together in an updraft was pretty unusual.
We also saw a few ospreys even saw one catch two alewives on one dive right in front of us. The osprey dropped one of the alewives and it was still flopping around n the bank when we made our way back downriver.
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