2026 - The Year Ahead

Took myself off the Top 100 list on eBird so I would stop focusing on the "Big Year" numbers and more on the joy of birding & birds. It's official my goal is to have the most delight-filled year ever.

Here are some of the objects of my delight the last few weeks...

Harlequin Duck

Female Common Goldeneye

Horned Grebe

Red-throated Loon

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Great Blue Heron

Blue Jay behind...

Common Merganser

Teenaged Deer

American Crow

Mute Swan

Gadwall & Ring-necked Duck

Ring-necked Duck

Harlequin Duck

Young Blue Morph Snow Goose

Seal

Gadwall

Mute Swans (big), Tundra Swans (Smaller), Herring Gulls (Smallest)

Least Bittern

Northern Harrier

Great Egret

Greater Yellowlegs

Not so delightful Duck hunter

Iceland Gull (Thayer's) - a rare subspecies only 5th one reported in Rhode Island - Very Exciting!

Herring Gull in back

2 Immature Herring Gulls in back

Unfortunately looks like it has a bum wing

Arapawa Goat

Shorebirds at Watch Hill Lighthouse

Black-bellied Plover

Dunlin

Ruddy Turnstone

Ruddy Turnstone doing its signature move -- turning a stone

Dunlin & Black-bellied Plover

Saturday Round-up

Eastern Screech-Owl (Red Morph)

Common Goldeneye

American Wigeon

Merlin

Eurasian Wigeon

A good day -- and a good week.