Two juvenile Cooper's hawks spent the morning harassing all the little birds up and down the canal and out over the sunflower patches. At one point they scared up flocks of house finches and goldfinches, a great horned owl and a flicker.
Summer is definitely winding down at the lake. A few yellow warblers, house wrens, gray catbirds, eastern kingbirds and western wood peewees remain, but many of the other summer birds have left. We saw a nice variety of swallows and Vaux's swifts over the water. At the parking lot was a molting yellow-rumped warbler – another sign of the change in the seasons. Ginger
