Posted by: AVianAdMin
on Apr 4, 2009
Visited Brite Lake today around 11AM. Found one Common Merganser and a Common Loon in breeding plumage. Both were in the northwest corner of the lake. There was one Belted Kingfisher along the dam in the rocks.
We also saw the male Mountain Bluebird in the exact same place we found a pair on March 28th: north of the Brite Lake dam, on the west end of the orchards, in the first tree of the fourth row from the west.
We drove in from the north side from old Cummings Valley Road, along a dirt road called Brite St. There were large flocks of Tricolored Blackbirds and a few Brown-headed Cowbirds in the horse pastures on the west side of Brite St. As we drove by, the blackbirds flushed and flew beside us for awhile, their white and red wing patches clearly visible!
Richard & Christine
