Leslie Spit wet woods: May 11-18

[mr.sharp-photo]

Kind of tired of a new thread being created every day. let's try to do a week's worth in one thread, i guess?

went to the Spit at 3.  busier than the last week, but still, nothing great.


Scarlet tanager
rose-breasted grosbeak
yellow rumped w
yellow w
black throated blue (brief view)
veery
hermit thrush x lots

[mr.sharp-photo]

today: really quiet.
1 black-throated blue
lots of yellow
a few yellow rumped
apparently a bay breasted
a great show by the sparrows
blue-grey gnatcatchers

otherwise...nadda

[Rotarran]

Saw the following:
Black-throated Blue
Black & White
Baltimores
Kingbirds
Least Flycatcher

Tough day for birding...when it wasn't hailing, it was raining bugs.

[Trillian Flummox]

Monday Highlights:

2 Common Yellow-throat
2 Black-throated Blue
1 Palm
1 Ovenbird singing
1 Orchard Oriole (1st year male)
4 Baltimore Oriole
1 Solitary Sandpiper (flooded field south/west of parking lot)
1 Eastern Kingbird
1 Thrasher
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
1 Least Flycatcher
1 flash of a really red bird that maybecouldhavepossiblybeenbutIwillneverknowTanager
1 rumour of a Bobolink singing
2 blue-headed birders enthusiastically phishing
2 Friendly Excellent Birders providing great company

-kris  

[spitzie]

Quick spontaneous zip to wet woods just as the sun popped out, around 10:15am:
yellow warblers
rose-breasted grosbeak and 2 females
4 baltimore orioles
1 least flycatcher
And another birder looking for the scarlet tanager - seen by several people this morning, apparently.