Bennington Lake Today

The rain quit, and the birds came out for our walk around the lake this morning.  The western wood peewees have returned – we saw or heard 8 of them in various places around the lake.  One of the yellow-breasted chats gave us good looks which sent high fives around the group.  Black-headed grosbeaks were also very visible and vocal.  Three eastern kingbirds posed nicely, and Bullock's orioles cooperated as well.  We watched tree swallows stick their heads out of snags at two different locations, and a pair of downy woodpeckers exchanged nest sitting duties in a snag at the east end of the canal.  A female flicker glared at us from her nesting hole in a tree, while house wrens and yellow warblers serenaded us everywhere we walked.  All in all, it was another good morning of birding.  Ginger