What a nice day to go birding. Comfortable temps and minimal sun. Beware of the greenheads deer flies, and mosquitoes. I birded from 1:45-7:15:
Snowy Egret 10+ Great Egret 4+ Great Blue Heron 1+ Oaprey 8including three young split between the two nests Wild Turkey 2 Killdeer 2 SHORT_BILLED DOWITCHER 90 Willet 6 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 7 American Oystercatcher 1+ Least Sandpiper 2 peep sp. 2 Common Tern 3 Least Tern 3 Eastern Kingbird 1usual spot! AMERICAN KESTREL 1 ad. male being driven off marsh by Two Common Terns! Common Yellowthroat 6 Squantum Point Park Yellow Warbler 6 Saltmarsh Sparrow 3
LEPIDS:
Monarch 1 butterfly sp' 1 Viceroy or Monarch Orange Sulphur 1 Clouded Sulphur 1 Cabbage White 4