I spent over 7.5 hours (7:35-3:20) birding Blydenburgh County Park (Suffolk) today, hoping the southwest winds overnight and spotty showers during the day would deliver a nice dose of migrants, as good as or better than the modest influx that occurred 5/10 & 5/11. Well, it was hardly a bonanza but I managed to squeeze 59 total species out of the park, 14 of them warblers, including single BLACKBURNIAN and CANADA. I got brief looks at what was probably a male Cape May as well, but in the glimpses I got before the bird flew out of sight it was partially obscured by leaves (high in the same oak as the Blackburnian), and silhouetted against the gray sky. I saw fine dark streaks on yellow underparts and what seemed to be a blackish crown, but the light was so poor that I couldn't in good conscience rule out Yellow Warbler 100%. Most locally nesting migrants were present in reasonably good (Great Crested Flycatcher, Ovenbird, Baltimore Oriole) to abundant numbers (Red-eyed Vireo, Gray Catbird, Yellow Warbler) numbers. Surprisingly, the only brown thrush detected was Wood. Full eBird checklist (with photos) here: http://ebird.org/ebird/ny/view/checklist?subID=S14125630 --
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