I'm now back home amidst the floods and torrential rain that has characterised the last 12 months here, so to cheer myself up I thought I'd share a coule of images from Northerly Island yesterday.
It was a breezy morning when I pulled up at 7am having said my goodbyes to my daughter. A Black-billed Cuckoo sat on the railings of the building above my head as I put my $2:50 in the parking lot machine - four hours should be plenty. There was one other car in the parking lot - that belonged to Leo whom I bumped into a few minutes later as we scoured the grassy areas for Sparrows. We had on very interesting bird that could have been a Henslow's but nothing was sitting out.
The area at the southern end was again the most productive with a whole host of Sparrows: White-throated, Song, Swamp, Savannah, Lincoln's and Chipping as well as this warbler that we think is a Pine.
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| PineWarbler |
Leo decided to try Montrose but before he left, stumbled across a flock of Lapland Longspurs (Buntings) numbering around 25 - 30. They hung around and let me get an image or two.
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| Lapland Bunting (Longspur) |
I also had my first ever Fox Sparrow (I've previously only visited this side of the Atlantic in summer) a Rusty Blackbird and four Soras. Some Savannah Sparrows were feeding in the area.
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| Savannah Sparrow |
I departed for Montrose to spend the last couple of hours before my flight home - it was rather benign but there were a few very nice birds for me to finish off with including another Fox Sparrow and Golden-crowned Kinglets.
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| Swamp Sparrow |
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| Northern Waterthrush |
Now I'm looking to the east and wondering where we should be going this weekend!
Cute little bird. Here in our country there is a certain kind of bird that is totally like that, it was called Maya.
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