While many people were out for the influx of migrating warblers, I kept to the more co-operative birds such as phoebes and nuthatches
Some of the cardinals still need a touch up from their molt. One was missing a few crown feathers and another was well behind with face and crown feathers not in yet.
Some flickers were in some trees across a bay from the trail. I managed to catch them in flight, showing off their yellow wing feathers
A good number of wood ducks were about including one relatively young family, the males still have a long way to go to recover their fine colourful suit of feathers
An adult male with the bright red eye on the left, and a juvenile male on the right with its eye just starting to show some red
Two green herons made a fast fly by, I managed to get a record shot of one in the distance
Great blue herons and an egret were hoping for a mid-morning snack
A number of flowers were blooming (Scroll over for ID)
touch-me-not (aka spotted jewel weed or impatiens)
asters
hoary alyssum
arrowhead
golden rod
purple loosestrife
heal-all
hog-peanut
vervain
Left to right: ripening buckthorn, ripe buckthorn and viburnum
A rock in the river was very popular with the map turtles
A snapping turtle was prowling the shallows by the observation deck
A few mushrooms and fungus were asking to have their photos taken
Thimbleweed seems to grow in one particular spot by the bridge
But fall can't be too far away with some colours showing....
