High water levels mean that shorebirds--apart from Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper--are in short supply on the
Spit these days. However, yesterday afternoon, a single Black-bellied Plover was resting on one of the Common Tern nesting sites in Cell 1.
I saw a female Orchard Oriole just south of the Owl Woods, and a male and second-year male of the same species in an open field near the lake end of the Spit. The second-year bird was singing loudly from the top of a shrub.
Between the Wet Woods and the rest of the park, I found a dozen species of warblers, including a female Northern Parula and my first Bay-breasted of the spring.
