Warm, sunny, 4:30ish
Decided to go back to Mount Auburn today, it’s getting into late July and I’m not expecting to see anything too exciting. I notice the board with sightings always has suspect claims this time of year “15 Philadelphia Vireos….5 Canada Warblers…250 Robins”. I’m sure the person saw a ton of Robins, but the other 2 are highly dubious, if not flat out impossible this time of year, but I digress. We walked around Willow Pond for a while and noted the turtles. There were several people on the opposite side of the pond from BF Skinner’s grave; they had easels set up. I got a picture of a father & son painting together.
After traipsing about by Willow for a while we headed over to Halcyon for a while, I wanted to find the Great Blue Heron. I’m still irritated that the memory card ate the pictures I had taken of it the day I saw the Black-Crowned Night Heron. Fortunately when we got there we spotted the Great-Blue after a few minutes of walking along the shore. Wendy is always perturbed when she encounters one. I think because they’re only slightly shorter than her, and their wingspan is greater than her’s.
I tried getting closer to it but it was having none of it, it kept creeping/flying away anytime I got within 20’ of it (The heron, not Wendy). We started wending our way around the lake after the Heron extricated itself from our presence, and as we came around to the side closest to the outside road I spotted a nest up in a tree. Andy was nearby and set up his equipment; his zoom lens is much better than the one on my camera. He got some nice pictures of what turned out to be some baby Robin’s. I got some pictures as well before my camera died, although they did not come out that great.Here’s another one, with one of the parents feeding the young one. I’ll add it to my collection of pictures of bird rear-ends. 
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