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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pinewood" data-source="post: 3014277" data-attributes="member: 10255">The doldrumsFrom now, until the last week of August, I can only hope to see the occasional flycatcher and very few new birds.  Grackles, gray catbirds, blue jays, norther cardinals are the usual sightings, punctuated by the occasional wader.  For instance, today's best was a black crowned night heron, which has been hanging around the bridge where the Gill empties into the Lake.However, there turtles are on the move.  I have seen two new turtle nests, which must be full of eggs and thrice,I have seen turtles, at quite a distance from the water.  I tried to stop someone from carrying a turtle back to Turtle Pond.  He thought that she was wandering.  If she had not yet laid eggs, his action was rather harmful..I have also seen Baltimore Orioles, a couple of times.  I guess that I should have no hard feelings about the hummer eggs.  This is just nature like Aesop's fable about the frog and the scorpion.Happy bird watchingHappy bird watching,Arthur :hi:</blockquote>