On Monday 2/10 & Tuesday 2/11 had a few fun birds to spend time with.
Moonstone Beach Road
Song Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Card's Pond Road
Common Raven
Succotash Marsh
Great Blue Heron
Red-shouldered Hawk
Northern Harrier
Weekapaug Breachway
Horned Grebe
We had snow on Tuesday night, so there were a few good opportunity with Snow Buntings & Horned Lark.
Misquamicut State Beach
Snow Buntings
Watch Hill Lighthouse
Surf Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Harlequin Duck
Horned Grebe
Long-tailed Duck
American Herring Gull
Misquamicut State Beach
Horned Lark
Atlantic Avenue
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Harrier
Hooded Merganser
Lots of weather kept me (and the birds) off the birding trail but I managed this bird moment with a Red-Shouldered hawk on Valentine's Day.
Quonnie Breachway
The first encounter
Caught the nictating membrane -- this doesn't happen very often -- it's the second "eyelid"
A quick glance at me before relocating
In its new spot
Showing its beautiful tailfeathers!
One last look before taking off (both of us!)
Mostly Coastal birding the rest of the time before departure. This is typically slow time in Rhode Island -- but always lots of sea ducks.
Surf Scoter & Common Eider
Surf Scoter
Northern Harrier
Common Loon with Breakfast
Leucistic Canada Goose
Watch Hill Lighthouse
Purple Sandpipers
From afar the one on the left looked like a penguin -- NOT - Great Cormorant
Icy Rocks
Quonnie Breachway
All three types of Scoters close in today --
Black Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Surf Scoter
A nice final bird in Rhode Island for a while -- this was at Mud Pond...
American Bittern
Common Merganser (back), Hooded Merganser (female)
Off tomorrow to see the Owls and spend a week in the Great White North (well -- Minnesota, not Canada) crazy as it seems.
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