It's only four days since the Purple Martin 'dread' that I described in an earlier post but the colony now appears to be almost completely dispersed with only a half a dozen or so young birds still in the area (mostly observed hunting insects overhead; they will, I suspect, also leave soon).
Yellow Warblers appear to have had a successful breeding season and, as I have observed with other passerines, the adult male and female seem to have divided their progeny between them as they move through the edge vegetation looking for food. I also observed male and female (and perhaps young) American Goldfinches feeding on the Marsh Elder (Iva frutescens) which is coming into seed.
The place is overrun with young Robins. Are they local birds? Robins, like other birds, are moving around post-breeding season. Although we don't think of Robins as exceptionally gregarious, they do flock up in numbers -- sometimes very large numbers -- in the fall and winter.
Eric Salzman
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