Bank Swallow flying over the marsh with Barn Swallows and Purple Martins: distinctive silhouette and flying technique, small, brown on top, white below with a very visible neck band. This was the first of its kind this year that I was able to securely ID
Clapper Rail was at it again with an almost continuous volley of claps, this time from the inside creek that flows from the central marsh into our pond; still couldn't see him but there was no doubt of who was clapping and from where. I still hear the Red-eyed Vireo but not as regularly as before. Alas, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo was silent. Flew the cucloo coop I suppose. Unlike many areas around we have almost no cuckoo delicacies -- no Tent Caterpillars, that is; maybe there are other goodies for him to munch on.
Eric Salzman
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