If it's Monday evening, it must be time for birding.

Steve and I have been going birding on Monday evenings for the past several weeks. Migration season is starting to wind down a bit, but it's still fun to go look for birds. We went to Kiwanis Park along the Scioto River in Dublin, Ohio this evening from 6 to 8 pm. We spotted 27 species of birds in that time, including two new ones for our lists - a Philadelphia Vireo and a Least Flycatcher.

One of the memorable moments this evening was the scene we observed of a blue jay attacking a Cooper's Hawk. We also enjoyed observing a Great Crested Flycatcher in action. The only warbler seen this evening was a Wilson's. A Baltimore Oriole added some more color and we saw a lot of different woodpeckers.




Kiwanis Park is a riverside wetland area. Most of the park is accessed via a boardwalk.











This is one of the wetland areas you can see from the boardwalk.










I loved the lighting on the green foliage in this area. I took this series of photos just as the sun was setting.









I should have paid more attention to all of the plants here. It seemed like the dominant was skunk cabbage.












Here's a Great Crested Flycatcher.











I was able to capture this image as it took off from a branch.













One of many song sparrows out this evening.










A huge umbelliforous plant. I'll have to look up its name sometime.