Friday, June 14, 2013

the blue jay / June 14

Today I was doing some paperwork, but did spend some time out in the lovely weather.  The blue jay was around, feeding a fledgling.  There was a bird overhead I think was a tern of some sort, it just didn't look quite like a gull, even though it was a quick sighting.  We are near a marsh, and lake Ontario, and we have seen terns a number of times.  If it was in fact a tern and not a gull, it was most likely either a black tern or a common tern.  Whatever it was, it was making a high, clear call.  The other call today was the male cardinal, which was sitting on top of the bird feeder at the time.

Common birds: house sparrow, cardinal (pair), starling, blue jay

Spring visitors: red-wing blackbird (male)

Overhead: tern?

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