Little Bird Day!

Oof, what a morning! I’ve got a few new long stories to tell you at some point, but I don’t have time now, so let me just get to the pictures.

I didn’t see anything to photograph until my third trip to the river, after visiting the pond twice. There were a bunch of little birds there, and here’s a handsome song sparrow. Yay!

Here’s the first swamp sparrow for this season in Estabrook Park. Yee Haw!

And here’s the first fox sparrow reported for this season in all of Milwaukee County. Woo Hoo!

Just a bit downstream from all the sparrows, this was a couple of feet long and half-a-foot wide and is either a huge scaly tongue of a dragon or the tail of a beaver. I hope for the latter.

Then, just as I was about to leave the park, I checked the old fruit trees again, and this little cutie, a yellow-rumped warbler, paused just long enough for a nice portrait. We even managed to include some pretty fall foliage. “Thanks, Sweetie!”

Finally, in the same tree as the yellow-rumped, this palm warbler must have decided to show us what a real portrait looks like. They truly are the best little posers.