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 5, 2011: 1000 Islands and Montezuma NWR

One final picture from the island today, of the Wolf Spider

Now some photos from Montezuma NWR:

Above and Below:  Purple Martins

Female Wood Duck

I think this is Golden Alexander

June 5, 2010: Birding Montezuma, NWR

Our first birding trip in awhile!  Went to Montezuma for the Hudsonian Godwits.  Missed them but got a few photos in the process....

Below- Three shots of Bald Eagles near the Visitor Center

Purple Martin

April 8, 2010: Birding Montezuma NWR, New York

A few photos from a nice Spring day at Montezuma NWR

Purple Martin

Green Winged Teal

Ring Necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Redhead

Bufflehead