We are about as far north as the Bobolink gets in our region of British Columbia. It has travelled here from central South America to breed. Seen yesterday morning was a male, but I haven’t yet seen the female.
The male Bobolink was singing as it perched on a bush in the grasslands of Kokanee Park.
It flew off, but only to a nearby bush.
It turned out that there were two birds close to one another and I sometimes followed the wrong one. The other was an Eastern Kingbird. Here, it is flying off.
Thanks for showing…for unless in the right habitat, can so easily be missed! I love its gurgling, musical song!! I’ve only seen it up in Meadow Creek.
I didn’t know bobolinks came to BC. I’ve only ever seen one. Cole and I were sitting in a field above St. Féréol, Quebec, looking out over the St. Lawrence, on a magical summer evening in 1965. The bobolink rose and sang over and over in the late-day sky.
Thank you Alistair and Cynthia,
Muriel