Butts along the Boardwalk...

A Prothonotary Warbly making a trip to the pantry for a little munchie...

We're back at Magee! It was rough going back to work for a few days, butt that's the price you have to pay to be able to spend quality time on the boardwalk. LOTS of butts today, human and warbly! We'll post the fine folks and fellow bloggers we've seen along the way soon.

BUTT first!...some of our feathered friends...

Here's one of those confusing bootys!
A female( rhymes with tamale!) Black-throated Blue Warbly...

The Tree Swallows are nesting everywhere along the boardwalk.
More babies to eat them skeeters!

Okay, it's not from behind...butt you gotta love the flappiness of his flaming wings!

We saw FOUR Common Nighthawks roosting right over the boardwalk today!

Not really on the boardwalk...this is a Marblered Godwit booty spotted behind the Barnside Creamery ice cream shop(right across the road from the BirdMobile!).
The Doodles had a sundae while we were looking for this guy!

Here's a little mystery Warbly Thing booty...
I'll tell you in the next post who he is!

PAY ATTENTION LOOPY!

Black-and-White Warbly Thing. From Behind. And over exposed. Nutz.

Friday. The biggest warbly day I have ever seen at Magee. Got my camera. A little rain here and there. Got my rain cover. Take pictures. Lots of pictures. I don't know where to look first. I should have looked more closely at my camera...with my glasses on. I didn't notice I had the settings ALL WRONG! Over exposed with flash on. Too slow a shutter speed other times.

$@#&*!

What have we learned? After eight years of shooting burd buttz...PAY ATTENTION! I am not happy. We shall see what I have for Saturday, Sunday and Monday soon. I am afraid. Very afraid.

(I peeked...very nice stick photos to follow...)

LIFER ALERT!
Who'd have thought a Barn Owl would be discovered roosting in the woods?

What the...?

Oh. It's a Palm Warbly getting all cleaned up for his trip north...

DOODLE BOOTY!
This is sort of a "Where's Waldo" photo...only with an American Woodcock instead of Waldo...and it's a photo instead of a drawing...and there aren't any other birds or cartoony things in the photo either.
Got that?

By the way...I will be at the Black Swamp Bird Observatory Saturday and Sunday May 14th and 15th! Stop by and say hello, I get lonely!

May at Magee...the madness has begun...

This "poor" little Whip-poor-will just couldn't get any rest with the hundreds of birders checking him out...

The Biggest Week In American Birding started off with a bang. That bang could have been a few passing thunderstorms...or me whacking my head on a low limb...

LOTS of great birds, Doodles has the list and she passed out already, so you'll have to wait. Four days so far of very intense birding, walking and talking with old and new friends from the world over. Truly amazing! Our birding buddies from Tropical Birding are back in force along the boardwalk and other sites in the area, helping out with ID's and locations of all the many Warbly Things flitting in and out.

We just arrived home for a few days of real work, then back to Magee for three more days of silliness. As I browse through the many fuzzy, dark, fuzzy, bright, fuzzy, empty branch, fuzzy butts shots, I'm sure I'll find at least one to post for you. That way you can tell yourself, "At least my pics are better than that Bird Butt Guy...!"

Mr. Downy was as cranky as I was in the rain!

This is how Lincoln's Sparrows play Tic-Tac-Toe.
I lost by the way...

Oh look. A Northern Waterthrush not in the water.

Could it be? A Palm Warbly not from behind!

I love watching the Red-winged Blackbirds having a "Puffing Up" contest.

I know they're Wood Ducks, but it's still not right in my brain to see ducks in trees.

So, how many of these shots do you think I have?
No. More...many, many more.
That's a Yellow Warbly in case you were wondering why he is so yellowy.