Two trips to Pratt Farm, Middleboro

A local conservancy, with wonderful trails, and on a beautiful day, as in the past two day, such a pleasure to walk.  Not overly birdy (plenty of Yellow Warblers), but always something to see.
Here is what I kept.

Yellow Warbler

Sitting on the path.

Carrion Beetles, swarming over something. 

Testing the macro capabilities of the 100-400 f 4-5.6 L ii

Baltimore Oriole

At our back door, fearless, huge.

Another Macro test

Beaver

Pink Lady Slipper

Always a delight to see the first one. 

The versatility of the lens is becoming more and more apparent. 

Two bird outings

A morning at Barn Island in Westerly, R.I. before Brahms "Nanie" and Beethoven 9th. and then
this morning at Plum Island.  With the trees in full leaf, the warblers are getting hard to find, but I had some success.

Redstart

Catbird

Greater Yellowlegs

Osprey

Baltimore Oriole (f)

Cedar Waxwing

Back at the house, Princess at full attention. 

Green-winged Teal

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Redstart

Magnolia Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Cedar Waxwing

Kingbird

Mount Auburn, Trip 2

A little bit of sunshine, almost 60 degrees, and a few more shots.

Red-eyed Vireo

Parula

This young Red-tail had the full attention of about 10 bluejays each of which would wheel in and

attack the head, often coming in contact.  The hawk ignored them mostly (except for the hits), and was very intent on  something just below him, which I never discovered.  Probably as close as I have ever been

to one in the wild. 

Female Black-and-blue ?

Seem to be the spring of the Parulas

Swainson's Thrush

Redstart

Only Blackburnian I saw

another Parula

Chestnut-sided

Black-throated Green