Temps in the 50s, partly cloudy, no rain, Wind W 15-25 mph

The rescheduled flight arrived today and bore away Aaron’s group and Ivan.

So there are only me, Vicky, Jen, and Don birding the island. They will all leave on Wednesday.

I spent a lot of time at Clam Lagoon and environs today.

Out on the lagoon were a couple of Northern Shovelers. Along the Seawall, I finally caught up with a Black Oystercatcher.

But the best bird of the day was a female Tufted Duck (my favorite duck!) on Lake Shirley.

When I first spotted it, it was swimming about with its head up. Of course, once I grabbed my camera, it tuck its head in and took a nap!

It was an interesting bird, in that it had white undertail feathers and some white around the bill. Both of these features are uncommon in Tufteds, but not unknown. The white undertail made it easy to pick out among all of the other female scaup present.

In late afternoon, I decided to take advantage of the sun to try and get a better photo of one of the Bramblings coming to the Thrush Feeder.

Success!

Not only that, but a Redpoll showed up and posed as well…

So I picked up 4 more trip birds today. Amazing.

The trip list is 56.

Today’s list can be viewed at https://ebird.org/checklist/S276203654

The Trip Report can be viewed at https://ebird.org/tripreport/413629?welcome=true