Here are three photographs -- of Chestnut-sided Warbler, Scarlet Tanager and Hairy Woodpecker -- taken by Linda Sullivan during our ELIAS walk in Maple Swamp yesterday (Sunday, May 8). In my bird blog yesterday on the walk, I forgot to mention the Hairy Woodpecker which took great umbrage at our presence on the trail and flew perfect circles around us over and over again, calling loudly in that short, sharp shriek that Hairy Woodpeckers use. It circled so neatly and so consistently that I am sure that it had a nest hole in one of the many dead tree stubs surrounding us (but, of course, would not come in to betray the spot while we were standing there oohing and aahing).

Thanks, Linda!

Eric