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

July 21, 2012: Buffalo Harbor and Tifft Farm

We started out today enjoying the nice weather down at the new Buffalo Harbor

Then, some photos from Tifft Farm Nature preserve

 juvenile Brown Headed Cowbird

 Caspian Tern

 Not sure what this plant is

 Barn Swallow

 Painted Turtle

juvenile Yellow Warbler