Scarlet ibis-Caroni Swamp Trinidad (click to enlarge)

Click to enlarge! The scarlet ibis turns this color from its diet.
Juveniles are darker because it takes 3 years to become completely scarlet.

Spring at River Ridge

Our backyard stream

Is this wet forsythia?

Sideling Mtn Trail

Sideling Mtn Trail

A few shots of very small birds from FAR away!

Click the link for the Scarlet Tanager:Scarlet Tanager

 American Redstart blurry as heck

 Forsythia

 There is a chestnut-sided warbler on a middle branch here (you can click to enlarge).
Blue headed vireo

 A singing Cerulean Warbler

 Yellow-bellied flycatcher?

Scarlet Tanager

Eidelon Bird Walk Last Sunday

A few of us River Ridgers including Janet A. as our guide went out for a 7am bird walk at Eidelon. It was my first bird walk and I realized there is a lot more for me to learn. In all, 41 species were heard or spotted.  With all the migratory birds appearing it was pretty amazing. I have some photos to upload too but in the meantime here is the list with the number of each species from that morning walk.

Turkey Vulture	5
Double Crested Cormorant	1
Mourning Dove	2
Red Bellied Woodpecker	2
Downy Woodpecker	2
Hairy Woodpecker	1
Northern Flicker	3
Pileated Woodpecker	2
Great Crested Flycatcher	2
Yellow-throated Vireo	3
Blue-headed Vireo	2
Red-eyed Vireo	7
Blue Jay	8
American Crow	6
Black-cappped Chickadee	8
Tufted Titmouse	12
Red Breasted Nuthatch	1
White Breasted Nuthatch	3
Ruby Crowned Kinglet	12
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	16
Hermit Thrush	1
Wood Thrush	4
American Robin	6
Chestnut-sided Warbler	1
Yellow-rumped Warbler	35
Black-throated Green Warbler	3
Blackburnian Warbler	1
Palm Warbler	1
Cerulean Warbler	22
Black and White Warbler	3
American Redstart	8
Ovenbird	1
Hooded Warbler	1
Scarlet Tanager	4
Eastern Towhee	5
Chipping Sparrow	10
White-throated Sparrow	21
Northern Cardinal	6
Brown-headed Cowbird	10
Purple Finch	2
American Goldfinch	8

So much for last year's dry season.

Our backyard stream and all the others around the Ridge were flowing briskly the past few weeks. Constant Run Road had it's annual flooding but now has receded.

Spring? Where are you?

Ice covered trees the first weekend in March.