More Spring Bird Finds:

A "surprised" looking Red-winged Blackbird.

American Goldfinches are among the strictest vegetarians in the bird world, selecting an entirely vegetable diet and only inadvertently swallowing an occasional insect. (Cornell Lab, All About Birds)

Green Herons usually hunt by wading in shallow water, but occasionally dive for deep-water prey and need to swim back to shore - probably with help from the webs between their middle and outer toes. 

Two male Baltimore Orioles had a territorial battle high in the trees in Canatara. They're most often seen perched at the tops of trees or flitting through the upper foliage in search of insects.

The Purple Martin not only gets all its food in flight, it gets most of its water that way too. It skims the surface of a pond and scoops up the water with its lower bill. (Cornell Lab, All About Birds) I found this one having a drink at the edge of the St. Clair River near Sombra.

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are stocky, medium-sized songbirds with very large triangular bills. These chunky birds use their stout bills to eat seeds, fruit, and insects. (Cornell Lab, All About Birds)

Look for Gray Catbirds in dense tangles of shrubs, small trees, and vines, along forest edges, streamside thickets, old fields, fencerows....and the occasional park bench!!

(Cornell Lab, All About Birds)