This post is a little early, but I saw enough birds in the last four days to count as a week's worth of birds. On Tuesday I went back to rexhame beach and saw the piping plovers again- an adult and a young. I took some pictures, but have not uploaded them yet. Look in my gallery (http://www.whatbird.com/forums/photos/corbetts_gallery/default.aspx) next week for them.
Over Wednesday and Thursday the birding was okay. I set up some feeders in our yard Wednesday. By thursday we had song sparrows, chickadees, goldfinches, house finches, cardinals, and mourning doves, as well as grackles, starlings, and house sparrows.
Friday (Today) was the source of the eight new birds in the title. I got up early and went to a bird program at the North River Audubon. We then drove in a van to various birding spots nearby. As soon as I got out of the car, the few people that were already there found an indigo bunting! It was a female or young male, so it had almost no blue, but it was a life bird for me. In all, I saw five more new birds and heard two more. They were Canada and Pine warblers, northern rough-winged swallows, saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow and ruby-throated hummingbird. When we came along a flock of pine warblers, we were suprised to find that we were getting warbler-neck in mid-July. The hummingbird was a great bird, because I had never seen any type of hummingbird before. The saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow was probably the most uncommon of the birds we saw. I also heard two birds that I had never seen or heard before, the scarlet tanager and the winter wren. Other notable birds were both eastern orioles (Baltimore and Orchard), four swallows (barn, tree, bank, rough-wing), three flycatchers (great-crested, e. kingbird, e. wood-peewee) , Cedar Waxwing,red-shouldered hawk, and black and white warbler. In total, I saw and heard 49 species in four hours
