A Slow End of Summer

This happens a lot now that I am over 5 years in -- September seems really slow. It probably doesn't help that it has been exceptionally cool since Mid-August and perhaps the birds decided to leave early. I also doesn't help that I got a lot of birds I might otherwise be looking for the September earlier in the year.

On the upside, I have book a trip to Costa Rica in November, so I have lots of studying and drawing to do to prepare for that.

Here is what's been going on (in between video curation) for the last few weeks.

Quonnie Breachway

Common Tern

Black-bellied Plover & American Oystercatcher

Willet & Semipalmated Sandpiper

Black-bellied Plover

White-rumped Sandpiper

Moonstone Beach Road

Red-shouldered Hawk

Quonnie Breachway

Black-bellied Plover

Great Blue Heron, Great Egret

Slocum Road Turf Fields

Leucistic Pigeons

Quonnie Breachway

Snowy Egret

Willet

Snowy Egret eating breakfast

White-rumped Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

American Oystercatchers

Snowy Egret & American Oystercatchers

Snowy Egret

Black-bellied Plover

Green Heron

Black-bellied Plover

Willet

Juvenile Bald Eagle

American Oystercatcher

Osprey with a fish being chased by the Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle

Lesser Black-backed Gull (in front) American Herring Gull

Westerly Town Kayak Launch

Tree Swallows

Quonnie Breachway

Red Knots

Black-bellied Plover & Semipalmated Sandpiper

Red Knots

Black-bellied Plover

Red Knot

Semipalmated Plover

Black-bellied Plover

Whimbrel, Greater Yellowlegs, Common Tern, Willet, Snowy Egret

Laughing Gull

Forster's Tern

Snowy Egret & Laughing Gull

Common Tern

Whimbrel

Forster & Common Tern

Whimbrel

White-rumped Sandpiper

Forster's Tern

Whimbrel, Willet & Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Willet

White-rumped Sandpiper

American Oystercatcher

White-rumped Sandpiper

Sanderling, Semipalmated Plover & White-rumped Sandpiper

Semipalmated Plover

Sanderling

Whimbrel & Greater Yellowlegs

White-rumped Sandpiper

Green Heron

Whimbrel

White-rumped Sandpiper

Common Tern

Laughing Gull & Forster's Tern

Whimbrel & Greater Yellowlegs

Juvi COmmon Tern

Whimbrel, Common Tern, Willet, Laughing Gull

Caspian Tern

Plus American Oystercatchers

Least Sandpiper

Trustom Pond Farm Field

Red-eyed Vireo

Eastern Towhee

White-eyed Vireo

Galilee Bird Sanctuary

Osprey

Mule Deer

Juvi Yellow-crowned Night-heron

Snowy Egret

Misquamicut State Beach

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Moon, Venus & Regulus

Quonnie Breachway

Green Heron

Common Eider

Snowy Egret

Black-bellied Plover

Short-billed Dowitcher

Greater Yellowlegs

American Oystercatcher

Black-bellied Plover

American Oystercatcher

Forster's Tern

Pectorial Sandpiper from late August

Here's to a birdier week to come!