PROTHONOTARY WARBLER citing at mecox bay! For all us novice ornithologist, seeing the prothonotary warbler excited us, but didn't have quite the ornigasmic effect it did for the BIRD DOCTOR. Doc ecstatically responded to the citing of the bird, only having seen it one or two other times on the eastern end of long island throughout all his birding career. Prothonotary Warblers are brilliant little yellow birds with grayish wings. Their common inhabitants usually starts around 200 miles down south from long-island. A loud, ringing "tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet" all on one pitch alerted doc to the extraordinary bird in the area. Unfortunately they are becoming more and scarce as their wetland and swamp habitat are being diminished (cornell birds). It was quite the compelling bird and added a zingy punch to our trip.
We watched 104 skimmers some of which were sleeping (looking completely dead)
Around 9 confused blue jays try to find there path south
A badass male belted kingfisher in the distance (males lack a rufous band)
an incredible about of black bellied plovers (100+)great egrets (but turns out their not so great to watch)
snowy egrets (smaller than the great ones but way cooler with their yellow feet)
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