Bathing birds at the Blue Grass "beach"......

We went to Blue Grass yesterday and saw a lot of nice birds and some butterflies.  My favorite birds were the ones on the "beach" at one of the small lakes.  We sat there for about a half hour watching various birds come to bathe......and boy do they enjoy it!

The first bird to show up was a Brown Thrasher!

Looking around to see if anyone is watching him :-)

OK.....go to it! 

"Did I hear someone laughing?" 

Singing in the bath? 

We always see Goldfinches here and the male showed up and took a quick look around before.... 

.....making a few head down flutters. 

The female Goldfinch....

....I would call her style more refined....."the sit and flutter"

An Indigo Bunting male showed up next.

This bird and its mate were a total surprise.....I believe it is an Orchard Oriole female!

"Oh, that feels so good!!!" 

3 of the birds bathing together along the beach.

And the male Orchard Oriole, which I have never seen before!  I wish I had gotten a pre-bath photo of it.  It is a deep rusty color with a black head and tail and wings.

His style was one of great abandon.

"Ahhhhhhhh......."

The Red-winged Blackbird looked a bit snooty and afraid to get its wings wet. 

It finally fluttered about a bit, but was pretty reserved compared to that Oriole.

OK....enough wet birds, but they were sure fun to watch.

More stuff at a later date.