old & new warblers and an angry Osprey

At least one Cape May Warbler survived the rain and is still present in the usual spot at the bend in the marsh. It was an immature and looked to be feeding on the Red Cedar berries (or perhaps the insects that inhabit the Red Cedars). A new warbler was a Chestnut-sided Warbler immature (white below, lime-green on top), the first of the season. Yellow, Yellowthroats and Black-and-white are still with us. Another 'new' bird of the season: two Brown Thrashers in the shrubbery between the woods and the marsh. A few Tree Swallows have been moving overhead, all in a northwest-to-southeast direction. They are probably spillovers or laggards from the big barrier beach migration. They're the first swallows I've seen in a while Yesterday afternoon, a noisy, angry Osprey was dive-bombing a large perched raptor in a dead tree on Pine Neck. The perched bird appeared to be even larger than the Osprey and it was, I suspect, an immature Bald Eagle. I didn't have a clear enough look to be absolutely certain and I didn't have the time to wait for it to take off. Eric Salzman