A couple items, first from Herrick's Cove yesterday, after the 
festival was over:

This green heron was a lot of fun to watch: it heavily into mating 
behavior so it was standing on the branches and swaying back and 
forth in a very rhythmic motion.  Never seen that before.

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/4685.php

This morning, I got some great looks at a Yellow Warbler at the 
Springfield Boat Launch.

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/4686.php

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/4687.php

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/4688.php

While I was there I tried to photograph a couple blue-grey 
gnatcatchers that were hanging out as well, but all the photographs I 
got were pretty awful.

So on the way home I stopped off again this afternoon.  While looking 
for the gnatcatchers again, I managed to accidentally find a 
black-and-white warbler:

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/4689.php

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/4690.php

Finally, one of the gnatcatchers came in pretty close.  Not only did 
I get a photograph of it, I got a photo of it gathering nesting 
material:

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/4691.php

Also, on the way up to Springfield this morning I swung by Missing 
Link Access area.  I didn't have much time, but I did get very 
audible calls from a black-throated blue warbler.  There were others, 
but the BT-Blue is the only one I was able to ID from sound.  I had 
no visuals on anything at Missing Link, but given the gnatcatcher 
photo, I don't think I should complain :)

--julie
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