Meadowlark Morning

Tuesday was another gorgeous spring day. The sky was clear and sunny before 7 am, and the air still and above-freezing.

While waiting for the 6:45am boat, I naturally decided a little birdwatching would be a wonderful way to start the day - and so it was. Almost immediately, the plaintive song of a meadowlark was heard. Conveniently, two individuals made themselves conspicuous through a chase. One then perched on a fencepost, breast toward the newly risen sun: the yellow practically glistened! Nancy Steele and I were treated to a total of four of these half-conspicuous, half-cryptic birds.

As I approached Gananoque around 9 am, by the way, six turkey vultures wheeled over the 401. They, like the Canada geese, seem to be in migration mode. Yesterday (Mon.) morning, as soon as it was vaguely light, flocks of these geese could be heard overhead in the village, voices no longer restless, but fully migratory.

In the afternoon (Tues.), back in Marysville, I heard the three-note piping of a Greater Yellowlegs.

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