Memos from 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Piping Plover:

 Bobolink:

 Purple Sandpiper:

 Tree Swallow:

 

 Purple Martins:

 

 

 

 Black Vulture:

 Canada Goose:

 Mute Swan:

 

In Action

 Great Egret vs Great Blue Heron:

Least Sandpipers fighting:

Common Mergansers in flight:

American Wigeons:

More Common Mergansers:

Mississippi Kite feeding its chick:

Common Gallinule:

Short-eared Owls come out an hour before sunset to hunt:

Here one carries a vole that it recently caught:

But the owls have competition! Northern Harriers patrol the same grasslands during the day, and their hunting times overlap by an hour. The harriers are stronger, and so the owl loses its catch:

Forster's Tern during its lunch process:

Spring Flowers