Today's beautiful fall day offered the best of everything .Two club walks commenced one a memorial the other the first Saturday revealed some good birds.
"Autumn…the year's last, loveliest smile." ~ William Cullen Bryant
On Lenore Swenson's memorial walk, starting from 9th Street, hot paydirt at the Sparrow bowl with a Myarchius genus flycatcher later identified as an Ash-throated flycatcher by experienced birders in the group. Also great was a Baltimore Oriole immature or female. A photo taken was asked for further review.The latter popped up within the sparrow bowl west of the Picnic House, along the tree line above abundant sparrows.Wood ducks in Upper Pool,Peregrine Falcon perched at a Long Meadow tree , and Merlin perched on an antenna near 9th Street spices the list.
Meanwhile the first Saturday BBC walk had some stuff of its own. Reported at Lullwater cove north, Rusty Blackbird,Wilson's Warbler ,Gadwalls and Greenwinged Teal entertained those birders. Later ,at Wellhouse drive by the sumac Grove on peninsula base, a Yellow billed cuckoo I put in an appearance.
"Autumn…the year's last, loveliest smile." ~ William Cullen Bryant
