Good morning
Yesterday Alfred Adamo, Margaret Liubavicius and I birded The Islands on one of the nicest Spring days so far and we did find a nice variety of birds down there and following are some of them.
Hooded Merganser, Caspian and Common Terns, Common Loon ( overhead ), a late Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 9 Least and 11 Great Crested Flycatchers, E. Phoebes, 6 Blue-headed, 1 Yellow-throated and 20 Warbling Vireos, Cedar Waxwings ( now arriving in numbers ), Veerys, Swainson's, Hermit and Wood Thrushes, 16 Gray Catbirds, White-breasted Nuthatches, 1 Carolina and 6 House Wrens, 18 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Purple Martin, Cliff Swallows, 5 N. Parulas, Chestnut-sided, Cape May, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green and Palm Warblers, A. Redstarts, N. Waterthrush and Common Yellowthroats, plus 5 other Warbler species, White-crowned, Chipping, Swamp and Field Sparrows, Scarlet Tanager, 18 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings, 31 Baltimore Orioles, and 12 Bobolinks. Plus 50 or so other species.
It looked like it would be even better today but another flip-flop in weather forecasting has killed that. Not a nice place down there in the rain.
