Date: 4/20/25 8:26 am From: my AT&T YAHOO MAIL <shenthorn205...> Subject: Easter morning at Zoo Lake
After the torrential rain last night, the lake is pouring over the spillway. Birds were active and I'm practicing my ID skills. I am sitting and watching, scanning the trees, listening and checking Merlin app for vocals. Foliage makes it hard, but motion in the trees and grasses helps.
Lots of vocalizing of Carolina wrens, cardinals, and red-winged blackbirds. Skies were full of Franklin's gulls heading southeast. A nice surprise was a brown thrasher atop a tree singing his lungs out. I finally left him to his singing and moved on. What a repertoire! Who knew!
Several cowbirds were foraging and/or squeaking their distinctive high pitched sounds.
Several egrets flew above, too distant to ID. Lincoln sparrows kept popping up on Merlin and I confirmed one on a tree trunk. Barn swallows abounded and a few cliff swallows. More great-tailed grackles than usual flew high above. A spotted towhee popped up while I was scanning for the Lincoln's sparrows.
After sighting some coots, blue-winged teal and ruddy ducks, I headed home in the rain.
Hope to see you at Audubon meeting tomorrow at 7pm.
Sharon Henthorn
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