American Redstart

American Redstart Just passing through, very flitty as usual. Fall migration underway.

American Redstart Looking at the feeders, but nothing there of interest.

Great Blue Heron A Wood Duck house makes an excellent perch when not actively on the hunt.

Great Blue Heron However, off to another perch closer to the hunting zone.

Green Heron Easily spooked, the Green Heron changed a good spot for another across the pond.

Cedar Waxwing Neatly arranged on a curving treetop against the crisp, blue sky.

Red-bellied Woodpecker An immature Red-bellied Woodpecker perched entirely fluffed up.

Red-bellied Woodpecker Some of its fine, downy feathers are shedding like an early molt.

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Always very quick and very active, pausing only for a micro-second while bug hunting.

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Next bug coming up. Ready to launch.

Olive-sided Flycatcher A good size comparison to the smaller Eastern Wood Pewee perched nearby.

Whitetail Fawn One of two fawns of a family at Owen Park, the mother nearby. This fawn has found many stickers.

Cedar Waxwing With bugs swarming at a tree top, a flock zooms up and down to capture what they can.

Cedar Waxwing The swarm is so thick that each quick flight through is a meal.

Downy Woodpecker Sometimes the Downy goes entirely upside down.

Eastern Wood Pewee Looking regal, and briefly quiet.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird A male turned just so for its throat to glow with reflected sunlight.

Osprey A frequent visitor at Stricker's and Tiedeman's Ponds for abundant small golden carp or goldfish.

Osprey It usually takes umbrage at any interruption.

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Juvenile Birds

Gray Catbird juvenile Where the upper and lower mandibles of the bill join is the gape, which is more flexible and brighter in a juvenle. Just visible here, along with the still-short tail.an>

Gray Catbird An adult with the darker bill and a fully formed long tail

Cedar Waxwing juvenile Almost an adult, but with stripes on its breast, and still following its parents around.

Cedar Waxwing A parent perched on the same branch as a juvenile.

Cedar Waxwing Not as social as normally. two adults decide to have some kind of dust-up.

Cedar Waxwing Sitting on a freshly made nest, incubating eggs at Owen Park.

Chipping Sparrow juvenile Hopping around on its own in the grass in search of food. No parents in sight.

House Finch juvenile Still sporting one or two of the distinctive little feather tufts on the top of its head.

Song Sparrow juvenile Finer stripes along the breast and side, with the distinctive black smear just forming in the center.

Green Heron juvenile First the long look of this shape-shifter, crest up and still retaining a few of the head pin feathers.

Green Heron juvenile Then the short look of the same individual.

Green Heron juvenile A hop to another metal pole and a medium-length look as something below has become really interesting.

Green Heron With an occasional call, it perched high up in a dead tree at Owen Park, sharing space with a variety of birds.

Osprey The small golden carp, or goldfish, of Stricker's Pond make for a good meal for herons and Ospreys alike.

Great Blue Heron Taking a time-out from the hunt, a Great Blue Heron climbs through the air up to a favorite dead tree.

Great Blue Heron Even a tiny retaining pond at Owen Park has the huge goldfish of the carp family. They're everywhere.

Indigo Bunting female You wouldn't know this was the same species as the male.

Indigo Bunting male The more familiar brilliant color of the male.

American Goldfinch For late nesters like these, when thistle seeds form, August is a prime month. It can be both food and nest material.

Baltimore Oriole Though mating and nesting season have wound down for them, they still find the energy for a territorial dispute.

Blue Jay Noisy and highly visible, they elusively appear and disappear in the blink of an eye.

Northern Flicker With a wing flared out for a stretch, all the yellow shafts of the feathers show.

Red-bellied Woodpecker A male sitting briefly on a branch before zipping off, trailing chatters, to do the same elsewhere.

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