It's the first day of summer and finally it looks like it! The sun was shining, it was warm, there was no wind, and we didn't have to wade across the canal.
The birds seemed to be enjoying the warm weather as well. We saw 46 species today including a Caspian tern, a golden eagle, our first house wren babies (still in a hole in a snag) and a young great horned owl just starting to get it's adult feathers, but mostly still downy fuzz. No osprey today, but a great blue heron and a double-crested cormorant were having a slight argument over who got to sit on the osprey's snag in the southeast corner of the lake. We were surprised to find three common mergansers enjoying the sun on a log. Each week now should bring more activity with young hatching and then fledging. It's a good time to take a walk around the lake to see and hear the birds. Ginger
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