Another gloomy week -- plus I am traveling this weekend, so it will be slower.
Monday was very rainy -- so I checked out a large pond that last year had a bunch of Arctic Terns during a storm. You never know. I had one bird... Lots of swallows in Misquamicut and a first time bird -- Belted Kingfisher at Watch Hill Lighthouse. Good birds even in the rain.
Pied-billed Grebe in Worden Pond
Cooper's Hawk in Misquamicut
Tree Swallows
Greater Yellowlegs - my Spark bird!
Tree Swallows -- a LOT!
Belted Kingfisher - Watch Hill Lighthouse
Red-tailed Hawk on Newbury Drive
Tuesday morning was spend in Lincoln is hopes of finding a Dickcissel at Chase Farm (reported on Monday). Again it was gloomy and no Dickcissel, but a nice morning that ended up at Heaton Orchard with about 100 Pectoral Sandpipers.
Chase Farm
Savannah Sparrow
Sheep (it's a working farm)
I thought this was a bird
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Acrobatic House Sparrows
Savannah Sparrow
House Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow take off
Blue Jay
Heaton Orchard
Pectoral Sandpipers
American Kestral
Started Wednesday morning at Quonnie -- and MAN it was cold -- windy and brisk and very very high tide.
This was a full 1.5 hours before high tide - there is no way I could sit there for long.
Tree that looks like a Great Horned Owl that I have seen a Great Horned Owl in recently!
Heaton Orchard
American Kestral
Switch Road Turf Fields -- White-tailed Deer
Tree Swallows -- Misquamicut
Killdeer
Thursday dawned still nippy and windy so I decided to see if I could find a nice Sparrow at Galilee Bird Sanctuary. I didn't find the one I was looking for (Nelson's) but I had a lovely visit with a Clapper Rail -- the shy star of the day.
Clapper Rail
Savannah Sparrow
Belted Kingfisher
Indigo Bunting
Double-crested Cormorant
Blue Jay
An EXTREMELY rainy Friday -- although there were spots of no rain. A nice session at Succotash marsh and ended with a nice moments with three Whimbrel in the Misquamicut State Beach parking lot (even though 1/2 of it is blocked off).
Succotash Marsh
Great Blue Heron
Green-winged Teal
Greater Yellowlegs (yup - raining again)
Belted Kingfisher
Misquamicut State Beach
Whimbrel
Still raining when I left for a wedding in Maine early Saturday morning. Did a little birding up there, but not much new. It was pretty nice up there, but just a few pics.
Dark-eyed Junce
Bald Eagle -- just hanging out
Fungi on a tree
Savannah Sparrow
Welcomed October by getting up super early and was in Plymouth, MA but first light to try to see the Northern Wheatear that's been there for the last few days -- I was a day late and a bird short. Too bad -- it's a beauty.
Stopped in Newport on the way home to see my first Greater Scaup of the fall in Easton's Pond. Ducks coming back is a sign winter is on the way. Bummer!
Laughing Gull in Misquamicut State Beach Parking area.
This week is supposed to be nicer, but its a busy one for me -- dealing with a bunch of doctor's appointments and vaccines before I leave at the end of the month.
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