Monday Eclipse -- Check
Tuesday I did one of my favorites - Buckeye Brook Road, Clark Memorial Library & Kenyon Hill Trail (in actuality a road). Then off to do some Osprey Monitoring.
Clark Memorial Library
Pine Warbler
Tufted Titmouse
Kenyon Hill Trail
Turkey Vulture
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Matunuck Elementary School
Osprey
Gardner Island (Matunuck)
Osprey perched on a creative solution to get it to NOT nest on this chimney.
Wednesday started at Quonnie -- the only surprise was a pair of Red Crossbills that flew over vocalizing. My Target location was Canochet Road and it was productive, although not as productive as I had hoped. I heard & saw (briefly) a Louisiana Waterthrush, but I was really hoping to get a photo this year. So I will still be looking for that bird.
Had a wonderful Bird moment on Stubtown Road. Two Wood Ducks flew into a tree close to me -- got several shots, then the male few to another spot (not lit as well, but got some more shots). Then I looked down and saw a Pileated Woodpecker on a downed tree about 20 feet away, unfortunately I missed the shot (too many branches). I did get a fuzzy distant photo. Very cool moment.
Woodvillle-Alton Rd, Hope Valley
Red-tailed Hawk
Robin Hood Ornament
Blue Jay
Stubtown Road
Wood Duck
Pileated Woodpecker
Tree Swallow
Watch Hill
Northern Mockingbird
Another Osprey Nest (not occupied at this moment)
Thursday dawned Gloomy but I was in Foster by dawn. Had a brief encounter with an early Wood Thrush in Rockland Cemetery. The whole morning did not have good light. Ran into some weird stuff.
Rockland Cemetery
American Robin
Fog near Ram's Island Rd.
A very weird encounter at Green Acres in Foster
Succotash Marsh
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
I didn't post any checklists on Friday but I did drive around a revel in the influx of Gulls due to the storm. Tons of variety!
Misquamicut State Beach Parking Lot
Lesser Black-backed Gulls
Roger Wheeler State Beach Parking Lot
Lesser Black-backed Gulls
Multiple Gulls in Galilee Parking Lot
Did the coastal route on Saturday from Scarborough State Beach to Misquamicut State Beach.
Scarborough State Beach
Black-headed Gull
Succotash Marsh
Red-winged Blackbird
Dunlin
Quonnie Breachway
Belted Kingfisher
Mink
Common Loon
Piping Plover -- 10 in all today and one banded one who has been here before
AC4 is a regular at Quonnie
Weekapaug Breachway
Common Loon
Misquamicut State Beach
Laughing Gull
In the afternoon a neighbor found an early Eastern Kingbird at Avondale and I had to check it out.
Avondale Farm
Eastern Kingbird
Sunday morning started with a trip to Nicholas Farm Management Area, where a Male Blue Grosbeak - usually an annual visitor, but never easy -- had been spotted in the morning. I didn't have the energy to go up yesterday and was lucky that he hung out for another day and that Bill Thompson, who refound it, was still there when I got there. Unfortunately as I was walking up, the bird flew into high grasses. We waited for about 15 minutes and when Betsy Staples arrived the bird popped out. Guess she's my lucky charm today. Had a chance to chat with Sam Miller who was out with his large parabolic microphone trying to capture all the various Red Crossbill sounds.
Nicholas Farm Management Area
Blue Grosbeak
American Goldfinch in there somewhere (look for the yellow)
Blue Grosbeak relocated
Hudson Pond Road
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Oak Grove Cemetery, Ashaway - New Spot
American Tree Sparrow
Later I believe I heard a Northern Waterthrush on an out of the way road in Hope Valley -- I'm still waiting to hear from Sam -- the man with the parabolic microphone -- to see if he agrees. Its been a great week from Eclipse to Blue Grosbeak -- an early Northern Waterthrush would just be icing on the cake.
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