I went on a digiscoping mission with a couple of friends today and we bumped into an Ash-throated Fly down at Bald Point. One had been found there on sunday so I presume it's the same bird. It obliged all of us for some digiscope pictures, sitting very still for long periods. If only all birds were so cooperative.

Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens

There wasn't much else at the park. We searched carefully through the Chipping Sparrows but could not find a Clay-colored. We had Northern Harrier, many Myrtle Warblers, Gray Catbirds and several Eastern Phoebes. Decent numbers of Barn Swallows were still on the move and a single Cliff Swallow had the same idea. A flyover Common Loon and a few Savannah Sparrows were also spotted. Out at Alligator Point we found 3 Surf Scoters and a Black Scoter. The docks provided a roost site for many shorebirds, terns and larids.

American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus

Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata

At Bottoms Road a single Marbled Godwit was roosting with the Willets, Short-billed Dows and Greater Yellowlegs.

Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa