Alas, this morning's Maple Swamp walk was a washout. Even so, a short stroll around the neighborhood (up and down Pleasure Drive and on a couple of wet paths around the old horse pasture) produced a few things of note singing in the rain: Rose-breasted Grosbeak (a beauty but scarce locally), Blue-winged Warbler (no Lawrence's Warbler), an Eastern Phoebe (nesting in the old horse barn), several Baltimore Orioles and, notably, a Warbling Vireo. This last is a bird that disappeared from Long Island in the last century but has recently staged a comeback (nice to have some good news for a change, no?).
Eric Salzman
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