Migration was heating up at the Slough this past week and it makes me wish that I lived nearby so that I could hop over on a daily basis. In any event, I had the opportunity to visit on Monday and enjoyed seeing/being part of this 'heaven on earth' that the slough exhumes while walking over the water - on the boardwalk that is.
Several photos were taken and some of them were decent, take a look for yourself.....
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| My first interesting sighting was in the early morning hours and way up at the top of the trees, after watching it for a bit - I started to recognize |
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| that I was admiring a Baltimore Oriole - the size, the shape, the bill and the wing bars were my main clues - the computer helped me to clarify its identity. |
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| And then, toward the end of our boardwalk enjoyment - we were blessed with quite an exciting viewing.... |
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| right in front of us - at eye level - we had this large group of birds show up.....this Worm-eating Warbler, |
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, |
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| Yellow Warbler, |
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| Prairie Warbler and |
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| Carolina Wren all of a sudden gathered together and voiced some sort of excitement - they were obviously disturbed over something..... |
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| we watched with excitement and awe and soon realized why they were so.... |
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| it was this Yellow Rat Snake that caused all this excitement - eventually the birds left the area, the snake resumed its descent down the trunk and no one was hurt in the process. |
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| And this, my friends, concluded yet another memorable morning at the Slough. |
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