Black Skimmers PI

After weeks of no birding in the reserve, day one... 6 Juv Black Skimmer's on Sandy Point. Not great shots, but it is only the second time I've seen skimmer's on PI.

Lark Sparrow PI

A Lark Sparrow was found on Plum so I went to check it out today, I found the bird foraging about the Hellcat area. A mature bald eagle also put up the roosting Herons and Egrets along the dike. Other birds seen: Black Crowned Night Heron, American Golden Plover, Black Bellied Plover, White Rumped sandpiper, Stilt Sand Piper, and Pectoral Sandpiper, and various normal peeps.

                                                           Bald Eagle putting up ducks

                                     Great Horned Owlet from this spring...late post...

Peregrine's

Well the Falcons are back on PI, I've seen mostly Juveniles and couple adults. I've taken some time off from birding due to the heat, but I am back...and the weather is cooling. Thank god. More pics to come.

                                         

Megladon tooth from Casey's store, awesome...

A quick drive

Baby wild Turkey's and Willet's were around in the Parker this morning. The Turkey's were quite comical. A few other recent pictures as well.
                                             
                                             

                                              A quick shot of the PI Red Tail in between rain storms

                                                         Did not have valid permit...

                                     Just another Willet doing what they do...standin' on stuff

                                                              Ceder

 Casey under one of the recent PI rainbows

Black-necked Stilt

A life bird for me on Plum Island today. A bit far out for good shots, but awesome to see on PI. Also 2 Tri-colored Herons.

Catching up

Well, I have been slacking in my updates, so this is sort of a combined smattering of pictures. I traveled to the Kennebunk Plains, an upland prairie habitat to see; grasshopper sparrows, vesper sparrows and upland sandpipers. Very cool place. Indigo Bunting's and Blue Winged Warblers have returned to Martin Burns. Plovers and Least Terns are on nests here on Plum. I also completed a bird survey at my in-laws farm in Boxford and found a Savannah Sparrow, a first for me at this location. Pictures are in no set order.

                                                               Black Bellied Plover

                                                                Black Crowned Night Heron

                                                                              ?

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                                                              Eastern Blue Bird

                                                            Empid - ?

                                                                  Indigo Bunting

                                                                     Piping Plover

                                                      The local Red-tail

                                                                  Willet's

Eastern Screech Starling 

Warblers on Plum Island

So with the weather front on Thursday night, the fallout of Warblers was pretty awesome on Plum Island. I had 14 different species in about an hour around the Hellcat area. A few other people I ran into had a couple of other birds that I missed. While I only got pictures of a few of the birds, the full list of Warblers that I saw, is as follows: Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Black throated blue warbler, Black throated green warbler, Chestnut-sides warbler, Magnolia warbler, Blackpoll warbler, Black & white warbler, American Red-start, Overbird, Louisiana Water-thrush, Common yellow throat, Canada Warbler &  Yellow-rumped warbler. Other FOY birds seen this week were: Rose -breasted Grosbeaks, Eastern Kingbirds, and Bobalinks.