Oh The Birds We Saw....

Bennington Lake this morning was teeming with birds.  All the summer birds were there and they were all singing a happy song because it wasn't raining. Bullocks' orioles, black-headed grosbeaks, gray catbirds, yellow-breasted chats, western wood peewees, willow flycatchers, yellow warblers, house wrens, western tanagers – the list goes on and on.  How fun!  In addition to the usual birds we saw some unexpected visitors as well.  The southeast corner of the high trail seemed to be our best location for the unexpected.  In that area we saw a least flycatcher, a olive-sided flycatcher and two lesser goldfinches.  The rain returned shortly after we finished our walk so we were lucky to have the good weather.  It was also good to have all of our regular walkers back from their birding jaunts across the country.  Ginger