Arrivals

This week some shorebird started to show up -- Piping Plover and American Oystercatchers -- have yet to get good photos, but they are here and that makes me happy. Quonnie Breachway is still full of Common Eiders @500 as it has been all winter. I didn't get out every day (including today - Sunday) but I spent a lot of time birding yesterday. The Ocean State Bird Club held it RI Cup (essentially a Big Day) and I figured I would go see if I could find anything for the players. Here are the week's highlights

Matunuck Schoolhouse Road

Wild Turkey in a tree

Quonnie Breachway

Black Scoter

Common Loon

Black Scoter

Brenton State Park

Killdeer

Harlequin Duck

Killdeer

Third Beach, Middletown

Northern Harrier

Atlantic Avenue, Westerly

Coyote

Breach Drive, Westerly

Osprey

Great Egret

Quonnie Breachway

Immature Female White-winged Scoter -- very unusual plumage

Piping Plovers

Succotash Marsh

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser & Greater Yellowlegs

American Robin

Gadwall

Long-billed Dowitcher

Just birding from the porch today -- but have a "regular" a female Red-winged blackbird has been hanging out since Friday -- she's pretty!

This isn't her (my backup camera is on loan to a fellow birder right now) but it's a good photo of one that shows how she does not really look like you would think -- I love her very streaky breast.