Plum Island (1)

We went up to Plum Island yesterday for the morning and had some great success, with a pretty good variety (~50 species) and a couple of rareish birds. Good ol' family outing before I head off to MN tomorrow for a bit.

The Lark Sparrow was clearly the highlight here, but despite the terrible photo, the Clay-colored was a fun sighting for all.

Lark








Clay-colored

Mini-wave

Today we had a small wave of arrivals on the island. Nothing too exciting, but we gained quite a few songbirds (Robins, Varied Thrushes, American Pipits, Cedar Waxwings, a Clay-clolored Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrows, a Savannah Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrows, a White-throated Sparrowm Oregon Juncos, Anna's Hummingbirds and more) and banded around 17 of them.

Clay-colored


Anna's

Creepin'

So far today: three shark attacks, 50+ Risso's Dolphins, a short-eared owl, a second Eastern Phoebe...

...a Clay-colored Sparrow:


...and the fall's first Brown Creeper.


And a fat e-seal


And the Wandering Tattler