Although we had no scheduled trip, we still got up early to have breakfast and start taking down our tent.
Unlike the other mornings, bird song was everywhere. Merlin kept reporting a Canada Warbler, among others. A Green Heron flew over our site. We could not resist a short walk down the trail beside our site, where we saw a Blackburnian Warbler and a Canada Warbler. Wow!
We finished packing and drove to the start of the Tower Trail parking lot, where we saw another Canada Warbler, a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers, a Red-eyed Vireo and a photogenic Common Grackle.
We reluctantly decided to leave, only to meet a woman on the road listening to a Mourning Warbler. We stopped for it and got it. Too bad it was backlit.
Finally, we were on our way, stopping when we saw Cedar Waxwings, a Sandhill Crane with a hairdo and a perched Red-tailed Hawk.
On our way home, we made several stops, including the Durham Cemetery, Furnace Falls, and the York River, where we swatted mosquitoes while photographing an Ovenbird.
We saw a turtle on the road by a “watch 4 turtles” sign, but it had vanished while we turned around. Our last bird was another Eastern Bluebird at the Madawaka River bridge.
