Ruddy Turnstone, as fancy as any spring warbler.
Fancy and plain Sanderlings.
Bejeweled Piping Plover.
An Audubon's Warbler that Phillip Wallace found at Willow Island.
At the corral by Holly Beach, a Western Tanager was a nice accessory for a blooming acacia tree.
This gregarious Dickcissel lost its flock and seemed to want company very badly.
Vying for my Bird of the Day honors was this bluerunner, or Yellow-bellied Racer, at Peveto Woods.
This was my first bluerunner on the coast since Rita, and a welcome sight.
Venus's Looking Glass.
Blue Grosbeaks, Bobolinks, and Dickcissels were great to see. Fields were full of birds. Orioles, tanagers, thrushes, and hundreds of Indigo Buntings were strange to see jumping out of the thick grass.
I was surprised to see a couple of LeConte's Sparrows still around.
Birds were in strange places, showing strange behaviors. A good day for birders can be a bad day for birds.
These two frigatebirds were over Johnsons Bayou, heading SE to the Gulf. I saw 2 others doing the same thing later.
These birds were hungry, but I managed to escape.
This male Brewster's Warbler was a first for Gary Broussard and me, at Willow Island. Brewster's are hybrids of Golden-winged and Blue-winged Warblers.
Spring migration doesn't always end well.
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