More Fog!

Jul 9, 20232 min read

This is getting a little tiresome -- but it was Foggy again almost every morning this week. But I need to start with a Saturday Rhode Island report. That Magnificent Frigatebird was still in town when I got back, but I broke one of my rules -- don't chase. It made for a very frustrating three visits to Narragansett, yes even the one where I found the bird -- traffic, people and haze made it very difficult, but I finally saw it from Camp Cronin and was able to get several very distant photos.

Magnificent Frigatebird

Sunday morning at Quonnie was very foggy and doggy -- I didn't stay long.

Short-billed Dowitcher

Least Sandpiper

Piping Plover

Laughing Gull

Osprey

Again very foggy in Quonnie on Monday -- sensing a trend here? No Photos worth posting.

Tuesday was -- Foggy! Had the usual suspects, but an exciting Whimbrel flyover in the fog -- close enough to see clearly but too quick for a photo. Who knows where it went.

A quick stop at Succotash yielded some ok fog photos and the first decent photo of my Osprey check at Cap'n Jacks!

Lesser Yellowlegs

Least Sandpiper

Least Tern

Killdeer

Green Heron

Osprey Nestling

Gray Catbird

Wednesday it was on and off Foggy -- so I finally got my Roseate & Foster's Terns (and WHAT? Yet another Royal Tern) and had a long visit with what I originally thought was a Snowy -- but I'm really not sure -- even after I vetted it with the eBird folks.

Roseate Tern

Forster's, Royal & Roseate Terns

Forster's Tern

Roseate Terns

Forster's & Roseate Terns

Willet

Visit from maybe a Snowy Egret

Took a ride on the Block Island Ferry and was lucky to see this Great Shearwater in the fog...

It was clearer on the way back but the birds were very distant -- except for a few gulls

Great Black-backed Gulls

Had a crowd at Quonnie on Friday looking for the Whimbrel & special Terns. It was pretty quiet.

Nice to finally see the place in the sun (for a few minutes)

Had some very cooperative Barn Swallows

I arrived at Quonnie Saturday morning at 5am and there were only 3 parking spaces left. I thought I was in for a very short session -- but no I had two hours before some guy let his dog loose on the sandbar and flushed all the birds. I just don't get why people think that is ok. People!

Finally a really clear sunrise

Short-billed Dowitcher

Least Sandpiper

Piping Plover

Willet

Killdeer

Dragonfly

Osprey Nestling at Cap'n Jacks

Green Heron at Sue's Pond by the Misquamicut Club

I almost didn't go to Quonnie this morning -- but I'm glad I did! Surprisingly nice morning at Quonnie -- no fog but not great light. Had a birder friend join me a little before seven. Had a nice assortment of birds that were fairly usual but I don't always see. We both left when a man released his dog on the Sandbar (third day in a row someone has done that) and flushed all the birds.

I've mentioned before I seem to be a Royal Tern magnet recently and again today one showed up. I don't think it is the same one as a few days ago (distinctly different haircut). Nice to have someone to share it with. It didn't stay long.

Here are Sunday's lovelies from Quonnie

Piping Plover