This week started with a LOT of rain and some breaks, it was my best day of the week. Got three new 2025 birds although no photos - distance & flittiness. Monday started at Beavertail State Park, moved on to Camp Cronin and Galilee Bird Sanctuary.
Beavertail between the raindrops
One of my few decent photos at Camp Cronin (with a lot of help from Topaz) -- Shearwaters
Galilee Bird Sanctuary
Swamp Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Snowy Egret (through a fence)
No bird photos on Tuesday, just a Snapping Turtle at Mud Pond
Wednesday I hit Scarborough Beach and saw what I thought might be a special Plover, it is not -- just a Semipalmated Plover.
Scarborough Beach
Semipalmated Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Northern Mockingbird
Atlantic Avenue
Great Blue Heron on Osprey nest
Thursday from Misquamicut State Beach Parking Lot
Laughing Gull
Friday was a beautiful day at Sachuest Salt Marsh -- a beautiful Northern Harrier was pretty cooperative.
Sachuest Salt Marsh
Cooper's Hawk
Song Sparrow
Northern Harrier
Eastern Phoebe
Palm Warbler
Eastern Phoebe
Savannah Sparrow
Dark-eye Junco
American Redstart
Brenton Point
Eider
Easton Pond
Pied-billed Grebe
On Saturday
Moonstone Beach Road
Black-capped Chickadee
American Kestrel
Sunday was it was supposed to be a big migration night -- I don't think it was. Back to Moonstone Beach Road.
Succotash Marsh
Serious Cloud cover but still the sunrise was a beauty.
Moonstone Beach Road
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Harrier
Double-crested Cormorant - never seen them on phone wires before.
Bald Eagle
Greater Yellowlegs
Perry Pond
Wood Duck
Diving Mallard
Eastern Phoebe
Atlantic Avenue
Great Blue Heron on Osprey Nest
Double-crested Cormorant
Westerly
Mute Swan
Two more weeks and I'm off to Canada to see the Polar Bears - Woo Hoo!
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