Sue and I started our morning's birding at Southard's Pond in Babylon Village, where there was a good variety of birds, including thirteen species of warblers, but nothing particularly rare. After exhausting the possibilities at Southard's we traveled east to Connetquot River State Park (CRSP), where a three mile walk up the east side and down the west side of the river produced a good number of the local breeders, including seventeen Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, fifteen Pine Warblers, and numerous Catbirds and Towhees. A singing Hooded Warbler on the east side of the river ignored our efforts to make him show himself, while the continuing Yellow-throated Warbler was seen, and heard, in the front of the park in the White Pines on the west side of the paved road to the fish hatchery, opposite the maintenance building with the new, unpainted wood shingles. The previously reported Blue Grosbeaks were not seen, although our effort in searching for them was far from thorough.
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