Where has the month gone!

 My Goodness, Where has the month gone!  Guess I need to do a bit of catch up but maybe I will work backwards....

Headed out in the canoe today for probably the last time as the water levels are dropping rapidly now.  It is actually unusual for them to still be this high at the end of August.

Wanted to check out the situation at the Purple Martin boxes.  Had been hearing them so knew they were still in the area, which is unsual this late in the month. There were approximately 30 birds flying around but this female still had young in that nest box.  Lets hope the weather holds so she can get them raised and ready to migrate in time.

It was actually shockingly quiet out in the estuary area.  A number of young Great Blue Heron like the one above, some Canada Geese, a few Mallard and one young Gull.  That was about it....

oh, and one Savannah Sparrow on a little islet over by the Harrison River.

Since discovering iNaturalist, I have been busy taking part in some of their projects and this week it is the Nature Conservancy of Canada Backyard Bio Blitz....which was why I wanted to be on the water in hopes of seeing some shorebirds or something interesting.

the other day we walked over at Harrison Bay, in the morning before it got too warm for the dogs. Quiet over there too except for one small section....

where birds were feasting on the fruit of the Black Hawthorne....here a Black Capped Chickadee....

a young American Robin....

and Cedar Waxwing.

What I haven't been able to find yet to add to the bio species is a Bald Eagle!  Here we are in the heart of eagle country and I can't find an eagle.  Not sure where they have all gone.  Have 3 more days to find one.