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

April 21, 2013: Birding Braddock Bay Area and Iroquois NWR

Braddock Bay Area:

 Brown Thrasher

 A variety of Bonaparte's gulls

 Caspian Terns

Snake (at Iroquois)

April 19, 2013: Birding Iroquois NWR

 Flying Greater Yellowlegs

 Horned Grebe

 Northern Shoveler

 Pipers and Caspian Tern

American Wigeon

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

August 1, 2007: Iroquois NWR and Tonawanda WMA Birding (Western New York) (9 BIRD PHOTOS)

Today we did a quick birding stop at Iroquois NWR and Tonawanda WMA in Genesee and Niagara Counties.

This young bluebird was attacking his mirror image!
Fly-by Caspian Tern
Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher
Lesser Yellowlegs
Great Egret
Fly-by Canada Geese
Caspian Tern

There are more and more Great Egrets here each year

Tree of Double Crested Cormorants
LOCATION OF PHOTOS (other than Bluebird, which was at Iroquois NWR)