Started slow around 9.10am. Lots of people, many more than Wed. Nothing at the pond, nothing at the culvert, nothing in the adjacent bays.
Spirits low, but nice day, kept going.
Another bay, saw a red-breasted merganser, up close and personal. It swam over to a nearby rock and perched on it. I slowly clambered down to the shoreline, sat on a rock (sun behind me).
Next to the merganser, 2 dunlins (does that make it a duolin?).
Mallards close by, ringbilled gull on rock beyond the dunlins.
Song sparrows 20ft to my left along with the RWBB and starlings.
To my right, the bay with a common loon heralding its arrival.
A pair of brants (new for me) within a matter of yards along with the Canada geese).
After a while I tried to get closer to the loon (closest approach around 100ft, slightly better than a speck in the camera).
Continued walk, met up with the spotted sandpiper again, also with chick, better opportunity to catch pictures (damn thing won't stay still won't you know).
Back home now, itchy nose (sunburn?), cooling off.
Looking forward to going again tomorrow for the arranged walk (thanks for the heads up ravynne40, here's the link again from her post -
http://www.ccfew.org/html/bird_walks.html ).
Some pics from today.
Merganser/Brant
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/3620172252/Dunlin/Ringbill
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/3620160154/Common Loon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/3619333831/Graham
(Nice to have the time to go out, but I'd rather be working)
