I checked most of the locations visited by Jay, Livia, Matt, and
Scott yesterday and found most of the same birds. No Stilt Sandpipers
at May's, but the phalarope was still there, also the juvenile
Bonaparte's Gull. (There was also a winter-plumage Bonaparte's Gull on
the dredging pipeline at Mud Lock.)
The best bird was a close-in Baird's Sandpiper at Puddler's Marsh. A
young Black-crowned Night Heron flew across Knox-Marculles marsh on my
way out around 11 AM.
I also walked a loop on Howland Island and, while it was generally
quiet there, came across the following: Scarlet Tanager, Wood Thrush
( 3 birds, all giving pit-volley calls), Eastern Wood-Pewee (6, all
vocalizing), Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe (4), Blue-headed
Vireo (2), and warblers: Hooded, Blue-winged, Pine, American Redstart.
The island was amazingly free of mosquitoes (almost, but not quite)!
Bob McGuire
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