River Bends Park, May 2005

Eastern Kingbird

Baltimore Oriole

Forster's Tern

The female on the left sat there crying and male kept bringing her food. Here he has a crayfish.

Tree Swallow

Great Crested Flycatcher

See the chicks?

Canada Goose goslings

The herons are getting big.

The chicks are constantly crying for food. And the parents spend the entire day feeding them.

I'm just a little pregant.

A female Red-Winged Black bird

Another Tree Swallow

Great Crested Flycatcher

Hairy Woodpecker

It's getting hard to tell the young from their parents.

Holland ponds was a super dump site. The water table was badly polluted. The Federal Government paid to build this water purification plant just for this area.

Marge, Marian, and I were just standing and talking about 30 feet from this box. After about 5 minutes, this Hooded Merganser popped out and sat there for 3 or 4 minutes. Next, she dove into the water, swam underwater about 15 or 20 feet and shot out of the water and flew away.

In center of the picture, there is a Green Heron. They are pretty shy.

A Downy Woodpecker

This is the main trail leading into the park. There is actually water on both sides.

Great Egret

A Common Grackle at the same box that the Hooded Merganser was in.