It's been a week...

Monday started at a weird tidal time - neither High nor Low. Birds can't decide where to go. Lots of Swallows and Butterflies!

Quonnie Breachway

Black-bellied Plover

Succotash Marsh

Green Heron

Moonstone Beach Road

Monarch Butterfly

Tree Swallow swarm

Monarch Butterfly

American Lady

Perry Pond

Wood Duck

Weekapaug Breachway Ponds

Green Heron

Watch Hill

Monarch Butterfly & Bee

Zinnias

Nice morning on Tuesday at Quonnie and then a visit to the Turf fields because of the intense rain last night. No too much there.

Quonnie Breachway

My Peeps...

Black-bellied Plover

Common Loon

Short-billed Dowitcher

Green Heron

Fairgrounds Turf Field

Pectoral Sandpiper

Killdeer

White Brook

Wood Duck

Switch Road

Lesser Yellowlegs

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Greater & Lesser Yellowlegs

Solitary Sandpiper

Falling tide on Wednesday at Quonnie and just the usual suspects, then off the Succotash for the same.

Quonnie Breachway

Lesser Yellowlegs

Least Sandpipers

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Piping Plover

Snowy Egret Set-too

Semipalmated Plover

Juvenile Laughing Gull

Great Black-backed Gull with Blue Crab breakfast

Succotash Marsh

Little Blue Heron

Great Egret & Glossy Ibis

Thursday provided a glorious sky in the morning at Quonnie. The birds were meh...

Quonnie Breachway

Least Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Piping Plover

Friday was the same old, same old - Quonnie, Succotash & Switch Road Turf Field. Nothing much new.

Quonnie Breachway

Willet

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Succotash Marsh

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Little Blue Heron

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Just a quick bird at Quonnie on Saturday of Labor Day weekend -- surprisingly peaceful. Some interesting birds on my "Lemon Sorbet" beach loop on the way home.

Quonnie Breachway

Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs, Black-bellied Plover & Short-billed Dowitcher

Early Dunlin

Lesser Yellowlegs & Short-billed Dowitcher

Black-bellied Plover

Pectoral Sandpiper

Red-breasted Merganser

Short-billed Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plover & Pectoral Sandpiper

Short-billed Dowitcher & Black-bellied Plover

Black-bellied Plover

Least Sandpiper

Weekapaug Road Field

Red-tailed Hawk

Belted Kingfisher

Rainy & Misting on Sunday morning, so I started at Succotash and hit some Turf fields. It's was not very birdy.

Succotash Marsh

Green Heron

Least Sandpipers

Mixed flock of Sandpipers

Juvenile Little Blue Heron

Slocum Turf Fields

Least Sandpiper

Killdeer

Cooper's Hawk - was sparring with a Raven for a while

Misquamicut State Beach

Glossy Ibis

Lesser & Greater Yellowlegs

Glossy Ibis

Greater Yellowlegs

That's all for this week -- my favorite tide cycle is around for the next few days -- so hopefully next week will be more productive. At the very least it will be quieter (after Monday).