Preparing for Birdability & Costa Rica

I've been a little neglectful of my Rhode Island Birding as I've been preparing for the first event Birdability Week with local events in Rhode Island. I've been a captain for several years, but never been around for the week itself. I've got 10 events happening locally and I'm doing a talk on Car Birding for the National Program. It's been a lot of work, but I'm hoping it comes off well and reaches the audience we are looking for.

I'm also going to Costa Rica for a birding trip in a few weeks. The first part of the trip is with a guide I don't know, but he was highly recommended by my Birding Travel Group. He's taking me to the Pacific Slope near Tarcoles which should yield different birds than my Relaxed and Easy Victor Emmanual Nature Tour that will be mostly in the Central Highlands. I'm studying hard and starting on some art pieces to get to know the birds better. It's been a busy time.

But I'm still getting out there a bit.

My last regular sit at Quonnie --

The gang at the point

Dunlin

Belted Kingfisher with breakfast

South Kingstown Town Beach

House Sparrow

Monarch Butterfly

Northern Mockingbird

Did something a little different -- went to a Hawk watch in New Haven for the morning. It was wonderful and fun to practice shooting photos of Hawks. Also ran into some Connecticut Birders I haven't seen in a while and it was nice catching up.

We had lots of birds (Over 700) and the preponderance were Cooper's & Sharp-shinned Hawks.

Lighthouse Point, New Haven - North East winds.

Cooper's Hawk

Sharp-shinned Hawks

Red-tailed Hawk

Some on Many, many Blue Jays

Bald Eagle

Canada Geese, not in a V formation

A quick Visit to Quonnie

Black-bellied Plover

and a Dunlin

Misquamicut State Beach

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Succotash Marsh

Common Eider

Savannah Sparrow

Misquamicut State Beach

Oddly plumed Canada Goose -- Pied?

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Third Beach, Middletown

Baltimore Oriole

Greater Yellowlegs

Eastern Phoebe

Bristol

Osprey

South Kingstown Town Beach

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Song Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Next week is Birdability Week and I'm not sure how much I will be out photographing anything. So the next post will likely be close to my departure mid-November for Costa Rica. Just Go Birding!