Assabet

 Biked to Assabet yesterday (Sunday) morning.  Nice views of a common yellowthroat and a Carolina wren.  Best sighting was a pair of blue gray gnatcatchers.

 

I also think I saw a female oriole, though I'm not 100% sure.  It was yellow with blackish wings.  The head was also yellow and the size was too big for a warbler or vireo.  Oriole is my best guess.

Newburyport

 

Parker River Refuge boat trip with the Brookline Birding Club.

Highlights included many ospreys, yellow legs, willets.  And some reasonable looks at bobolinks and salt marsh sparrows.  

And one surprise juvenile green heron sighting on the way back into dock

The next morning, we went back to the refuge by land and saw swarms of plovers and sandpipers.