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SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES

Good ‘Mourning’ Steuben County!

Beautiful birds on the banks of the Canisteo River

Photojournal by Janie Ferguson,

It is currently sixty-two degrees and foggy here in Cameron Mills, NY this morning at just about 8:30 am. 

I begin this week with a stunning, male, rose-breasted grosbeak, and a male Baltimore oriole, and another male grosbeak together.

They continue to enjoy my sunflower seeds, jelly and oranges. The grosbeak typically lays 3 to 5 pale greenish blue eggs, while the oriole lays 3 to 7 eggs that are pale blue or grayish-white with dark brown/black markings.

Next a delightful, downy woodpecker male, and a sweet, little, tufted titmouse. Then a male, Baltimore oriole, and a pair of mourning doves at my bird bath. I end today with a grand bald eagle that flew overhead this morning from a distance. Always a special delight to see!

I hope you enjoy these beauties, and your weekend, too.