Dateline: 18 May 2024
Somehow finagled quick turnaround from the BirdingPI.com photo editing team on these shots from yesterday at Presque Isle State Park along the Gull Point Trail in the afternoon. Guess everyone has warbler fever!
Conditions here and in the Pine Tree Trail area yesterday were rather excellent. Most ‘common’ warbler species spotted except Palm & Black-throated Blue. Even an unprecedented sighting (i.e., two days in a row) of amazing male Canada Warbler, in the willow thickets close to outer Gull Point:
Big news was a significant uptick in Bay-breasted Warbler sightings, like this (probably) lovely female:
(Seems in past year the Bay-breasted Warblers passed through much earlier = some worry it was going to be a light year for this lovely species.)
More Bay-breasted Warbler:
Meanwhile, PM shorebird activity on the Point was fairly light. (Yellowlegs, Dunlin, etc.)
Coming up soon, lots of warblers on the Pine Tree Trail!