This area seems to be a rookery for Black-crowned Night-Herons and Tree and Northern Rough-winged Swallows. We walked through several plumes of gnats. Seemingly what the swallows were feeding on.
--written by Ima and her family
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| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
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| Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron |
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| Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron |
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| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
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| Black-crowned Night-Herons |
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| Nine Black-crowned Night-Herons (probably) |
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| Black-crowned Night-Herons |
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| The Swallows and the Black-crowned Night-Heron |
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| Too many Swallows to count |
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| and more |
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| and even more |
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| and add a Starling murmuration |
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| some of the Starlings perched |
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| and then there's more swallows |
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| and a Northern Rough-winged Swallow perching |
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| and Three Swallows and a Green Heron below |
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| Green Heron |
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| Two Turkey Vultures |
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| Turkey Vulture |
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| A Swallow and a Turkey Vulture |
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| Two Ring-billed Gulls (can you spot the second one?) |
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| Red-tailed Hawk |
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| Red-tailed Hawk |
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| Common Yellowthroat |
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| Common Yellowthroats, being small, edible warblers, are eaten by many things, like the usual suspects, Merlin and Loggerhead Shrikes, but also by ...weirder things, like Chuck-will's-widows (who usually eat insects!) and Largemouth Bass (who are FISH). |