I'm so close to 200 I can taste it -- 199 in Rhode Island. Maybe tomorrow. There are certainly a lot of new birds coming in daily. These have been seen by multiples of other birders - Blue-headed Vireo, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Veery, Red-eyed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, and a number of shore birds -- but not by me... yet! Tomorrow is May 1, the "official" start of spring migration. What fun!
Here was my week -- the weather was still only marginally cooperative, lots of gray, cold and windy days. Mostly the usual suspects, but we did have a Clapper Rail (I only heard and saw a fleeting glance of this one) and a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (Which I got a very bad photo of).
My last looks at the American Avocet in really nice light which seems to have departed with the Clapper Rail. I will never tired of this elegant, graceful bird.
I had my first Common Ravens in the neighborhood and they seem to be collecting nesting materials. So maybe we'll have Raven chicks in the not-too-distant future.
The second of the pair
Racquet Road Refuge in Jamestown yielded these lovelies
Coyote
Female Red-winged Blackbird -- YES, Really!
Sing us home!
On Thursday I had my first good photo ops with a Yellow Warbler (they've been here for week, just eluded me) Despite the gloom caught a Broad-winged Hawk in the Great Swamp and a Cattle Egret at URI-Peckham Farm.
Yellow Warbler
Female Yellow Warbler
Broad-winged Hawk
Cattle Egret
Friday I got another gift of a good photo op with a Black-and-white Warbler
This is what I usually see
and this
Now that is more like it!
Kind of a gloomy day on Saturday the highlight was getting swallowed by Swallows - all in Westerly.
Bunny - very focused on eating.
Preening Double-crested Cormorant
Tree Swallows
Today was so gloomy, raining and foggy, no photo were taken.
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