This morning around eleven o'clock, I found a single red knot on the Spit, in the big pond with all the stumps (B1). It flew from the northern end of the pond out to one of the small fenced-in islands where common terns and killdeer are nesting. The bird worked the perimeter of the island for about five minutes before flying off to the western shore of the pond. I was close enough to see that it had a bright orange tag on its left leg. Other shorebirds in the pond included dunlin and semipalmated and spotted sandpiper. Ducks included a pair of canvasback, a female redbreasted merganser, an American wigeon in with the gadwall, and off to one side by himself a lone green winged teal.
Another bird of interest was a first-year male orchard oriole in the grassy area between the main road and the marina, and there were a good number of flycatchers, including yellow-bellied, least, and willow, as well as eastern wood peewee. It seemed as if every tree and shrub had its own resident yellow warbler, but the only other warbler I found in four hours was a female Canada on peninsula D. Also seen were a Swainson's thrush, eastern meadowlark, and a woodcock that flushed directly in front of me and flew to the marina road where it came down and rested in plain view and full profile for half a minute before a car chased it off.
