June 8, 2013: Erie, Pennsylvania

 Cheap gas!

Purple Martins at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center in Erie:

Presque Isle State Park

 Above and Below: Barn Swallow

 Cedar Waxwing

 Spotted Sandpiper

 Pectoral Sandpiper

 Least Sandpiper

 Pectoral Sandpiper

 Semipalmated Plover

 Caspian Tern

 Eastern Kingbird

 Willow Flowers

 Wild Pea

 American Toad

 Above and Below: Some flowers on the Gull Point walk

 Blue Butterfly

 Red-Eyed Vireo 

 Baltimore Oriole

Photos from Erie Zoo

August 18, 2012: Home and Iroquois NWR

One photo from home today, and then some shots from Iroquois NWR

 Baltimore Oriole feeding on our trumpet vine at home

 Leopard Frog

 Above and Below: Common Gallinule

 a young Pied-Billed Grebe

 Black-Crowned Night Heron

 Monarch

 American Crow

 Above and Below:  Eastern Phoebe

Red-Eyed Vireo

May 17, 2011: Backyard Birds

Purple Finch

Below: Baltimore Orioles

May 16, 2011: Lots of Baltimore Orioles at our Feeder