...that time of year!

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...and a little further down the path by the sailing club docks... Purple Martin's have taken up residence again in their beachfront condos.

They swoop down between the boats nabbing insects outta the air.

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There was also a gaggle of birders excitedly observing a Red necked Phalorope (we asked what the commotion was about) on the opposite shore of the river. Apparently a rare sighting of a migratory bird that nests in the arctic!

From Mr Googles:

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Their field scopes must be pretty powerful, as the river is quite wide at this point!

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