Lazuli Bunting Visit.

9-14-10 SHORT HILLS: Sunday we went to LI to visit Alison, Dan and Lily for the afternoon. It rained off-and-on most of the day, the rain was most welcome. We timed our return to NJ pretty well, avoiding the traffic at the end of the Mets game, the tennis matches and the Giants home opener. That one hour trip can sometimes be endless.

Even better was the intense T-storm last evening. The two rains gave us 0.75 inches of needed precip, and everything in the yard looks perky this morning.


We had, I believe, a pair of Lazuli Buntings at the feeder yesterday, a first sighting for me. They were here with a gang of grackles, all dressed in shiny, black outfits. They act like bikers too. A grackle is giving us the evil eye, the buntings have their backs turned. Birders-any comments?