After this morning's well-attended spring bird quest at the McIlroy bird sanctuary (highlights for me included a pair of close low Blackburnians and a singing Magnolia along with alder flycatchers and other expected species), I pulled over with Rick L by the Branch Road bridge over Lake Como to just enjoy the marshy scenery with the usual blackbirds and grackles and kingbirds and a skulking GBH. Suddenly a peregrine flew past exciting a minor ruckus; later two crows were seen harassing a raven, and a yellow-throated vireo started singing. It reminded us that sometimes the best birding happens when you just sit and wait at one spot.
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