Fast & Furious

Barbara Seith
May 11
3 min read

Well Spring is really here and Migration is underway albeit a bit early. Tuesday was a great day because I finally got to photograph a Northern Waterthrush at Roaring Brook & they have an accessible trail that I had never walked --- so I walked it. It was very birdy and easy to walk. I will do that again.

Roaring Brook

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Northern Waterthrush

Eastern Phoebe

Female Red-winged Blackbird with nesting materials

Atlantic Avenue Town Beach Kayak Launch - 9 Black-bellied Plovers -- never seen one there let alone NINE!

Foster on Tuesday

White-breasted Nuthatch

Eastern Towhee

American Robin

It's MAY ! A fun morning in Hope Valley

Carolina Trout Pond

Female Brown-headed Cowbird

Atlantic Avenue

Least Sandpiper

Carolina Trout Pond

Chipping Sparrow

Woody Hill Road

Red-shouldered Hawk

Song Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Carolina Trout Pond

Wood Duck

Stayed pretty local the next few days...

Atlantic Avenue

Greater Yellowlegs

Charlestown Moraine Preserve

Great Crested Flycatcher

Atlantic Avenue

Willet

Least Sandpiper

Snowy Egret

Great Egret

Greater Yellowlegs

Winnapaug Pond

American Oystercatcher -- first I've seen here

River Road

Song Sparrow

Bald Eagle

Whitely Preserve

Barn Swallow

Osprey

Great Blue Heron Rookery

Great Blue Heron

The first little chick head sighting!

Atlantic Avenue

FOY - Semipalmated Plover & Sandpiper

Sunday in Foster again!

Lawton Farm

Bobolink

Chipping Sparrow

Ponaganset Road

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Wood Thrush

Gray Catbird

Blue-winged Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Red-shouldered Hawk

Black & White Warbler

The week started on a very gloomy note -- but gloomy is perfect for salt marshes --

Atlantic Avenue

Least Sandpiper

Succotash Marsh

Short-billed Dowitcher

Marsh Meadows

Little Blue Heron

Wesquage Pond

Out of Season - Northern Pintail

Succotash Marsh

Great Black-backed Gulls nesting in the Sweet Spot

Willet

Female Red-winged Blackbird

Had a great fox encounter on Wednesday and some other stuff

Harbor Island

Red Fox

Brown-headed Cowbird

Atlantic Avenue

Least Sandpiper

Fun in Newport on Friday - Miantonomi and Gooseberry Cove

Miantonomi Park

Tree Growth

Red-eyed Vireo (rear view)

Gooseberry Cove

Common Tern

Common Tern Roost

Breton Point

Barn Swallow

Northern rough-wing Swallow

Quonnie Breachway

American Oystercatcher (Common Tern in the back)

Saturday dawned gloomy & misty but I bit the bullet and took a walk at Trustom Pond anyway -- leaving my camera in the car. I got a little wet, but not too bad -- two year birds -- Least Bittern & an early Willow Flycatcher. Then off to a new place for me in Smithtown - Stillwater Scenic Trail, where I pulled up, got out of the car and a fellow birder was pointing at the target bird!

Trustom Pond

Lemon Snail

Stillwater Scenic Trail

Prothonotary Warbler

Around the nesting hole

Ram's Tail Road

Eastern Phoebe

Louisiana Waterthrush

I started Sunday morning at Succotash Marsh -- nothing new, but a Coyote & an extraordinary visit with a Clapper Rail -- normally very reclusive and stealthy -- but it just swam across the channel right in front of me. Then a visit to the Great Swamp and my first official beach sit at Quonnie -- the Horseshoe Crabs are here!

Succotash Marsh

Coyote