For the past two weeks, I had experienced a lower back injury that impacted my left hip area as well. So my early afternoon walk was a rehab birding walk .
My plan was to walk slowly around the lake towards the peninsula. A long the way 2 black and white warblers foraged on low branches behind three sisters islands. Since it was hot by now, I expected little bird activity.
It was on lookout Hill where I was quite happy picking up a few more species . Noted among them, a Wood thrush hopped down the path by the upper Switchback trailhead. Then down at the bottom of the trail, I saw another thrush-- a Veery-- picking off mulberries .
By now I was feeling fatigued,so having gotten my bags limit and exercise, it was ok going home with something.
I read other earlier reports of Olive Sided Flycatcher north of Center Drive; in Greenwood Cemetery, a good one with Mourning Warbler at Valley Water and Yellow bellied Flycatcher at Central Ave.
"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change."
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
