Less Chuck's, more Yellow-crowns, Whimbrel continued all days, a Greater Yellowlegs flew by, and Willet was seen at the south coaling dock. I found a mockingbird, and a minute later was beating up the ground because it was a Northern.
 For when the Mockingbirds have wing patches
Most warblers remained, but their names changed to Zebra Nuthatch, Kensucky Warbler, and probably a few others. In other attempts to relieve ourselves of the boredom we rated all of the eastern warblers by their looks. A Northern Waterthrush came in and I blew the identification and had to hear about it the rest of the trip. Hunchbacked and a large-billed Palm Warbler were first noticed. The coaling docks had no A'holes of the Seas, but did have an Eastern Kingbird. The swallow flocked grew in size and a few Cliffs were picked out from the larger numbers of Caves. Winter birds mentioned earlier continued. My cell phone died, but later came back on so I could write down all the numbers I had. A few new gnatcatchers came in, and one tried to land on my head. A few Brown Boobies were seen each night on the BK markers in the direction of Loggerhead Key, we figured they must have coups.
 Phil was almost always on guard at the fountain |
