Day 13.138: Lots of birds at Timber Point

Some of the birds we saw at Timber Point on Monday. Starting with - unexpected beach birds - featuring a gray catbird doing a strange tail in the air darting motion, an American robin, an eastern kingbird (we later saw its distinctive white tipped tail) and a red-winged blackbird:

Secondly - non-sea-birds out and about - featuring a northern mockingbird, a common grackle (not so commonly seen since we moved to Maine), a tree swallow (one of several swooping low over the beach), a brown-headed cowbird (presumably not caring for its own young), a chipping sparrow (ground) and a song sparrow (at the top of a bush - and yes it was singing!):

Sea and coast birds - featuring - double crested cormorants (the biggest flying group I've ever seen, a more usual solitary fly-by and one perched on a rock), a tern of some sort and more eider (a pair that seemed to come for a close look at us when we arrived and (between them here) a group including some with immature plumage:

And finally - birds in a blossoming tree - featuring a male goldfinch, a female yellowthroat (we are fairly sure) and a female ruby-throated hummingbird (we also saw a male feeding here) and there were lots of other small birds that were two skittish to photograph: