Yesterday (Tuesday May 6) I was seeing lots of orioles around Cutler Park. It wasn’t a case of “everything that moves is an oriole” the way I remember it once several years ago, but there were plenty. I saw one Savannah sparrow with exceptionally bright yellow stripes on the head, quite close.<\/p>\n
Today (Weds May 7) Arlene and I went out to Nahanton Park on my way to work. I bicycled. She gave me a few minutes head start and drove. She got there just as I was getting off the bicycle and locking it to the big signpost. The timing couldn’t have been better.<\/p>\n
What we saw:<\/p>\n
– three male yellow warblers chasing each other<\/p>\n
– a yellow-rumped warbler in beautiful plumage<\/p>\n
– female and male rose-breasted grosbeaks. I saw the female first and recognized it, then looked for the male.
\n– savannah sparrows<\/p>\n
– field sparrow<\/p>\n
– catbirds<\/p>\n
Thursday (May 8) at Cutler Pond, co-worker Mimmi and I saw a yellow warbler, a yellowthroat, an extraordinarily cooperative black-and-white warbler (it just went about its foraging on a tree trunk not more than ten feet from us), and a swamp sparrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday (Tuesday May 6) I was seeing lots of orioles around Cutler Park. It wasn’t a case of “everything that moves is an oriole” the way I remember it once several years ago, but there were plenty. I saw one Savannah sparrow with exceptionally bright yellow stripes on the head, quite close. Today (Weds May … <\/p>\n