Lots of gloom and a little sun

Barbara Seith
May 19, 2024
2 min read

Monday started off kind of gloomy and got more so. There were a few moments when the sun came out and I managed to capture a couple images of a Snowy Egret (with breeding lores) during those moments.

Boundry Brook Road

House Wren

Great Crested Flycatcher

Succotash Marsh

Snowy Egret

Tuesday was nicer, but marginally. Ran into my friend Sue at Ninigret NWR and spent a long time just catching up -- but right after she left I had a few good photo ops.

Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge

Magnolia Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Northern Parula

Quonnie Breachway

Black-bellied Plover

Red-tailed Hawk

Another gloomy Wednesday -- the only photo worth posting -- a sunny Yellow Warbler amidst the Gloom.

No productive birding on Thursday (and I was trapped in my condo by a new neighbor moving in -- truck blocked driveway and the paused the elevator), so I processed the rest of my AZ photos (more to come on blog soon) Friday was gloomier than I expected, but did get a few shots.

Succotash Marsh

Willet

Osprey (in Cap'n Jack's Parking lot)

Quonnie Breachway

Least Sandpiper

American Oystercatchers

Piping Plover

Song Sparrow

American Redstart

Misquamicut State Beach

Bonaparte's Gull -- looks like its missing a foot?

I was hoping for a Sunny Saturday -- but alas, same old, same old... Started up in Foster -- where I had a very cooperative Eastern Wood-peewee singing away - finished up at Quonnie with 2 Caspian Terns and a cooperative Willow Flycatcher -- still gloomy.

Ponagansett Road

Eastern Towhee

Ram's Tail Road

Eastern Phoebe

Luther Road, Foster

Cedar Waxwing

Red-winged Blackbird

Eastern Wood-Peewee

Succotash Marsh

Snowy Egret

Quonnie Breachway

Caspian Tern

Ruddy Turnstone

Piping Plover

Willow Flycatcher

Least Tern in the gloom

Again, Sunday was gloomy, it was spitting rain on the way to Quonnie, but I braved the weather and walked out to the point with my wagon full of stuff to find not much real estate that would remain at high tide. But there was just enough, Maria joined me for the last 45 minutes. Also went to the Town Beach Kayak launch in Westerly where I discovered a bunch of Ruddy Turnstones and Dunlins. Nice way to end the week -- it's almost 1:30pm and the sun is trying to peek out. We'll see...

Quonnie Breachway

Bonaparte's Gull