There are now at least three or four Great Blue Herons summering on the creek along with Spotted Sandpipers and Royal Terns. Also at least one juvenile Night-Heron (probably Black-crowned). Green Herons still active and apparently nesting somewhere in the treetops. No sign of the Willets which were so omnipresent earlier in the summer.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird reappeared in the same area where it was seen a few days ago -- just back of the west bank of the pond. Also in the low vegetation that has sprung up in this area since Hurricane Sandy: Yellow Warbler. A group of Downy Woodpeckers on a dead Pitch Pine provided the first evidence of Downy reproduction this season; the young birds were obviously clumsy and still dependent on the adults (this was a rather late fledging for this species). White-breasted Nuthatches still a prominent member of the local avifauna along with the inevitable Titmice and Chickadees.
Eric Salzman
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