Day 19.231: Birds at St. Joseph's Cemetery

Our nature group gathered at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Biddeford today. Here are some of the birds we saw:

Turkey vulture

Little blue heron (best ever views)

It was surprisingly well camouflaged considering its striking color

I suspect he also had some good views of us

Mallards

Eastern phoebe

Very fine looking song sparrow

Wild turkey

Chipping sparrow

Cedar waxwing peek-a-boo

Black vulture

Day 19.230: Eagle Marsh revisited

I made two other brief visits to Eagle Marsh - one at sunset on my way back to the hotel and the other in the morning on my way to the airport. Here are a few photos from the evening:

Sunset meadows

Great egret

American black duck

American robins

And some more from the morning:

Eastern cottontail

House sparrow

Song sparrow

Northern cardinal (state bird of Indiana)

Eastern phoebe

Common starling

Gray catbird

Double-crested cormorant

Mallards

Purple martin

Great egret

Gray catbird

I think this might be a young swamp sparrow

Day 19.229: Eagle Marsh Nature Preserve

This preserve was less than ten minutes away from my hotel and I managed three short visits there. The first was the longest and most successful (on the afternoon I arrived). This is some of what I saw there on that visit:

The marsh

I think this is a very strikingly colored red-tailed hawk

The most exciting sighting were several red-headed woodpeckers. This one carried this large cicada to the top of this dead tree...

...and deposited it down into it (presumably feeding young in a nest)

Red-tailed hawk

Eastern kingbird

Great egret

I think this is an olive-sided flycatcher. I wish it had turned around so I could see its olive sides.

Great egret

I saw a flash of blue as some birds disappeared into a thicket. Only one stayed for a photo and it was anything but blue despite being an indigo bunting (female)

Northern leopard frog

Monarch

Red-tailed hawk

Tall ironweed

Hollow Joe-Pye weed