Mating Piping Plovers, Milford Point, 4/6/21

 Courting, mating Piping Plovers, Milford Point, CT, 4/6/21

Mew Gull (Kamchatka), West Haven, 6&7 April 2021

Mew Gull (Kamchatka), West Haven, 6&7 April 2021.  First found at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, the rare Kamchatka Mew Gull was refound by John Oshlick on 5 April.  We viewed it on the beach in West Haven on both the 6 & 7 April, 2021.  A few poor record photos below.  Most striking is the size of the Kamchatka Mew Gull.  The ones we see in California are smaller the Ring-billed Gulls, but this on is larger in every dimension.  Its wings are longer, its legs and bill are longer.  Also, its head is not the rounded, dovelike shape of the California Mews.

 

4/6/21 notice larger size of Mew Gull compared to RBGU

4/6/21

4/6/21

4/7/21 

4/7/21

notice (white) windows on black primaries 9 & 10

April1, 2001, Pine Warbler, Mondo Pines

 April1, 2001, Pine Warbler, Mondo Pines

First warbler of the year at Mondo Ponds, 4 Pine Warblers (also a Yellow-rumped Warbler):

White-faced Ibis, Hammonasset State Park, 3/331/21

 White-faced Ibis, Hammonasset State Park, 3/331/21

Now a yearly spring event, a White-faced Ibis was discovered yesterday at Hammonasset State Park in Madison, CT. It associates with a flock of Glossy Ibid, which do breed here, and can be separated fro Glossies by its red eye, pink facial skin, and white facial surround; it also has red-pink legs.

March birds, Milford & Environs

March Birds, Milford and Environs

Rusty Blackbird, male, breeding plumage, Eisenhower Park, 3/30/21

Rusty Blackbird, male, breeding plumage, Eisenhower Park, 3/30/21

Green-winged Teal (Eurasian), Milford Point 3/22/21

Green-winged Teal (Eurasian), Milford Point 3/22/21 (with Gadwall)

Piping Plover, Milford Point 3/22/21

Piping Plover, Milford Point 3/22/21

vocalizing Fish Crows, Silver Sands SP, Milford CT 3/18/21

Fish Crows, Silver Sands SP, 3/18/21

Gadwall, 3/6/21

Glaucous Gull, West Haven boat ramp, 3/7/21

hen No. Shoveler, Birdseye boat ramp, Stratford

Piping Plover, 3/9/21, Milford Point

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

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Merlin, 

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Sherwood Island SP

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Sherwood Island SP

Eastern Bluebird, Eisenhower Park

hen Ring-necked Duck, Mondo Ponds

hen Ring-necked Duck, Mondo Ponds

Pied-billed Grebe, Birdseye boat ramp

No. Shoveler drake, Birdseye boat ramp

No. Shoveler drake, Birdseye boat ramp

No. Shoveler drake, Birdseye boat ramp

Pileated Woodpecker, male, Racebrook Tract

Red-shouldered Hawk, Milford Point

Boat-tailed Grackler, Warehouse Pond, Stratford

Europeran Grackle, home

drake American Wigeon, Mondo Ponds

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

Piping Plover, Milford Point, FOY, 3/9/21; AMOY, 3/11/21

 Piping Plover, Milford Point, FOY, 3/9/21.  Dr. Bill B & Cathy V found the seasons first PIPL at Milford Point this morning, 3/9/21, a very warm day: perhaps the PIL rode the warm front up from the south.  He's a male, and this is the earliest I have ever seen one in Milford.  The Horned Lark is a late straggler.

American Oystercatcher, 3/11/21 Milford Point

PIPL, Milford Point 3/9/21

PIPL, Milford Point 3/9/21

Horned Lark, Milford Point, 3/9/21

Horned Lark, Milford Point, 3/9/21

Glaucous Gull back at Silver Sands 3/6/21

Short video of the Glaucous Gull at Silver Sands State Park in Milford CT

 Glaucous Gull back at Silver Sands 3/6/21