Not a Gull

Sunday morning computer time...getting Sunday Stills posted and all...when a strange gull call echoes from the backyard.

I am busy. I ignore it. 

For a while.

Finally the urgency drags me out the back door....to stand on the steps and finally look up.

Nope, not a gull. A pair of bald eagles circling in flight and crying at each other right over the Winesap apple tree.

I think they stayed three or four minutes or so. I think the big dark raptor accompanying them was a juvenile.

I think having bald eagles dancing around in your backyard is incredibly cool.

And then this morning a new singer was tuning it up in the mulberry tree, also right off the step. Having learned the red-eyed vireo last week, I recognized this as a very similar call but different.

Tried the white-eyed vireo call.

Nope.

Warbling vireo? Yes, I think so. Not going to claim it because I am not positive, but I am really close to positive that that is what it is. How cool is that?