Poor light, Good Birds

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Richard

After 1600 miles of travel, we are settled into one our favorite state parks — Fontaiinebleu State Park, and enjoying grey skies but warmer weather. Here are some birds we’ve seen enroute and here at the park.

This guy was on a light pole as I loaded the van in Tuscaloosa – leaving when the rain began.

We think that this is a Brewer’s Blackbird or a Rusty Blackbird.
Today we saw an immature Bald Eagle fly over, hassle with this adult, who then perched far off in this pine. No way we would have seen him just walking by.
Even with his tail hanging down.

As I was scanning the lake shoreline yesterday, I spotted this guy out in the water and others in costumes with drums going and people on the beach watching the going’s on. A Creole ceremony, a mid-week wedding? I moseyed over that way, met a guy who was watching the equipment tent, and learned that it was a Canadian outfit shooting a music video. The performers and director was from Canada, having flown in that morning, and a local crew was shooting.

I have no idea about who they are, but lit was like seeing a neat bird but not getting the id — you got the memory and another surprise of going birding.

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