Bird of the Day

On the weekend of May 10 - 12 the Rancocas Conservancy held their curiously named annual Rancocas Watershed Bird Day (why not "Bird Weekend"?). I participated Friday morning the 10th birding my yard (and on an incidental basis Saturday and Sunday as we came and went form the house), which backs up to the South Branch of the Rancocas Creek.

I tallied thirty-two species, including a late Saturday afternoon Belted Kingfisher, espied by Patty at the top of one of our willow trees. That bird was clearly lost.

The bird of the day (weekend?) for me is the one shown above (the yellow dot sitting dead center in the bush).

Fortunately it came a little closer.

A Prothonotary Warbler. A great bird to have visiting the yard on any day.