Mystery at Magee Marsh!

Of course I have a butt shot!

I'm always excited when I find a file of photos that I forgot about...except when it contains birds I can't identify!

I actually have three different days from my little weekend forays into Magee Marsh with my little camera. These shots are from August 7th of this year. I do remember a lot of fledgling birds about. Very hard to ID fledgling birds...possible Eastern Wood-Pewee...or was it a Eastern Phoebe...hmmm...

And then there's this little fellow. When I first saw him preening, I thought he was a Common Yellowthroat(I'm still leaning that way) fledgling. Look at his bill, he still has the yellow edges, but it looks so big for a Yellowthroat. Too small for a Tanager or and Oriole. Must be a Warbly-thing. Help me out here. I'm tired and can't think. Yeah, I heard that! It's worse than usual.

This is low right along the creek after he was preening.

I followed him(or her) for about thirty feet, until he went up into this tree then back into the marsh.

This is an easy one!
It's a juvenile Bald Eagle with an Eastern Kingbird on his back!
I was taking photos of him as he flew over my head, when I realized he had a passenger.
I shot as fast as I could, but he was zigging as my camera was zagging and this is the best I got.
Pretty cool!

I'll be at the Ohio Ornithological Society conference at the Radisson Hotel in Eastlake Firday and Saturday. Stop by and say "Howdy-do" if you're in the area!

Uh...a post on Monday...

A Timberdoodle for the Doodles!

Yep. Monday. My brain itches. You're on your own...

American Redstart taking off.
He can't deal with me either...

Black-and-White Warbler booty for Kimmay.

Blackpoll Warblys have cute little yellow footies.

Yes, that says footies!
Black-throated Blue Warbly...you can tell it's a she because of that look on her face.
I see that a lot.

A Black-throated Green Warbly showing his lack of a black throat.
Still green though...

Hunch backed little creep!
Brown Creepers will not let me take their picture!

"What? I suppose you have something silly to say about me too!"
Cape May Warbly things can be very touchy...

These are Mark Shieldcastle's hands.
He likes to point at parts of Common Grackles and taunt them.

After being freed, the Grackle took out his frustrations on this little defenseless berry.

Look, an almost motionless Golden-crowned Kinglet!

This butts for you.
Can you guess what it is?
You'll have to, because I'm not gonna tell. So there.

It's a two-butt Monday.
I'll tell you this ones name.
It's a yrufdbdurajwjdsf Warbly thing.
ha.

This is how I feel.
I'm a cranky Northern Cardinal.
"I'll bite you!"

Where's Waldo?
There's a warbly thing in there somewhere!
Find the Ovenbird.
Now you know how much I enlarge some of these pics!

Once again, the wrong end of a Red-breasted Nuthatch.

Mark had a Rose-breasted Grosbeak at bird banding.
"You can tell by the wing pattern why it's called a Rose-breasted Grosbeak."
(He didn't really say that...)

Here's a Rose-breasted Grosbeak hiding from Mark and his mist net...

Wow, almost a whole shot of a Wood Thrush.
Look out National Geographic!

For some reason, this photo of a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker looks like a museum display.
It's not, it was on the Magee boardwalk.
Well, not actually on the boardwalk, but near the boardwalk.
Is that clear?

Oops. How'd that photo get in here?

There we go. A Yellow-rumped Warbly thing from the proper angle.

I now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.
Thank you for your patience.

*By the way, the "yrufdbdurajwjdsf" Warbly thing is a Nashville Warbly.
The other un-named warbly thing is simple, just look at it's tail pattern!