visitors

I had visitors this morning -- not so many birds but a couple of local birding humans: Eileen Schwinn and Erin, a bird-watching neighbor.

Unfortunately, I didn't have quite as spectacular a group of migrants to show them as I had yesterday; the warm weather encouraged many of the new arrivals to keep on moving. Apparently yesterday's appearance of a flock of 150-200 Pine Siskins was an outlier of a big movement of Siskins along the shore along with Am Goldfinches and Yellow-rumped Warblers. I could even see some of these flocks moving across the bay yesterday but today Siskins were not at all noticeable and the other two species were in short supply.

There were still a few Purple Finches and some House Finches as well as Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Eastern Phoebes and various woodpeckers. Also a Junco (missed yesterday), Winter Wren, Palm Warbler and Greater Yellowlegs, the last three around or actually on the pond. No eagles today but a Peregrine Falcon came across the creek later in the day along with an Osprey that caught an eel in the creek and took it over to Pine Neck to eat. 

Eric Salzman