Kennebunkport

Birding was pretty slow on our Maine trip to Kennebunkport, even at the Rachel Carson Preserve.  Fortunately, I got a good break on the last morning and took my bins to Dock Square and got a clear, if not particularly close, view of a bald eagle.

Assabet

Another morning bike ride to Assabet.  Another good set of birds.  Indigos, cedar waxwings, towhees and a blue wing.  The cedar waxwings were particularly handsome today.

Brewster's Woods Concord

I visited Brewster's Woods the last two weekends in search of a reported prothonotary warbler. No luck, but I did see a barred owl on my first visit there.

Sandwich , Cape of Cod

Did a one-night stay in Sandwich to see Josh Simpson at the Glass Museum.   

Took the opportunity to do some beach birding.  Highlights included the following:

Many Least Terns

Willet (this is my picture).

These are good Willet pictures

Common Eider

Piping Plover (including babies)

 

Bike and Bird

A combined bike and bird trip to Assabet paid off this morning.

Got my first good look this year at a Rose-breasted Grosbeak 

Other highlights were a female American Redstart and 2 Baltimore Orioles