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Well, had a nice 4th of July trip to the east coast to see family and friends, and I got as much birding in as time would allow - including a brief stop at Plum Island, MA and a few days in Maine. Even squeezed in a boat trip to round out a few east coast pelagics:
303. Common Grackle
304. Chimney Swift
305. Gray Catbird
306. Common Tern
307. Glossy Ibis
308. Eastern Kingbird
309. Baltimore Oriole
310. Laughing Gull
311. Eastern Towhee
312. Bobolink
313. Pileated Woodpecker
314. Red Phalarope (local rarity)
315. American Redstart
316. Willow Flycatcher
317. Least Tern
318. Great Black-backed Gull
319. Piping Plover
320. Wild Turkey
321. Black-throated Green Warbler
322. Winter Wren
323. Northern Parula
324. Ovenbird
325. Swamp Sparrow
326. Eastern Wood-Pewee
327. Red-eyed Vireo
328. Alder Flycatcher
329. Barred Owl
330. Eastern Phoebe
331. Bald Eagle
332. Eastern Whip-poor-will
333. Great Crested Flycatcher
334. Veery
335. Wood Thrush
336. Common Eider
337. Black Guillemot
338. Atlantic Puffin
339. Razorbill
340. Arctic Tern
341. Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
342. Great Shearwater
343. Northern Fulmar
344. Sooty Shearwater
Last evening I went to the western part of the state to a Barn Owl nesting site. It was the third trip I made there in the last couple of weeks, but this time I saw the birds.
Today I went to the boreal forests of the high mountains of West Virginia to look for crossbills. I found just one (usually they're in sizeable flocks), but it counts, so I'm now up to 220.
I've lost count on my two lists, and skipped a few, so reposting from 130 on
130. American kestrel
131. chimney swift
132. cedar waxwing
133. Rubythroated Hummingbird
134. Scarlet tanager
135. Wood thrush
136. Yellow-Billed cuckoo
137. Carolina wren
138. Ovenbird
139. Eastern bluebird
140. Grasshopper Sparrow
141. Henslow’s sparrow
142. Bobolink
143. winter wren (WI)
Hard to find anything new these days, partly because it's been too blinkin' hot to go out during the day usually. (And, of course, most of the locally-common species are accounted for by now.)
Fortunately, these birds will call (and loudly - RRREEEP!) into the early evening.