A Quick Rhode Island update

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I've been a little less than consistent birding at home lately. Between unfavorable tides, weather and other projects going on, I've let this habit slip away a bit. Getting back to it at the start of the week, but I thought I would do a post to show I haven't been completely in absentia lately.

Visits to my favorite shorebird haunts (Quonnie, Succotash Marsh and Atlantic Avenue) have been somewhat less productive that I would hope, but it still gets me out in nature.

Returning to Quonnie after a long absence was a joy...

Sunrises this time of year are incredible when you catch it just right.

The flock at Quonnie point

Misquamicut State Beach Parking Lot -- is finally tourist and construction free...

Monarch Butterflies flit about

Cooper's Hawk perches in wait for the best moment to strike (they eat birds...)

Red Knot

Least Sandpiper

Quonnie Breachway

Osprey

Forster's Tern

Perching Egrets -- there were @30 of them

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Black-bellied Plover

A lovely morning at Quonnie with Maria and John...

Snowy Egret

Semipalmated Plover

Forster's Tern

Ring-billed Gull with Northern Puffer

We spotted a Bald Eagle the perched near Maria's house, so we followed it there. Bonus -- a great Butterfly Bush that had more than Butterflies...

Bald Eagle

Cabbage White Butterfly

Monarch Butterfly

Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasp

Snowberry clearwing

Misquamicut State Beach Parking Lot -- unidentified...

A few days later I returned to Quonnie the day after the 3 American Avocets were at Quonnie -- I saw them but didn't get a photo due to intense low sun behind them. It was my 218th species at Quonnie Breachway.

A lagging juvenile Laughing Gull (most of them have already moved south)