Luck plays a big part yet again. It's now early afternoon, we are in Cumberland County and the winds ahead of the on- coming front have picked up. Mike's invaluable scouting has produced numerous spots for the next species. We get the Yellow-throated Warbler on the first crack, but it takes six tries before a Prothonotary obliges. Our last possible warbler a Kentucky, calls almost immediately.
Life is good.
We wind our way down the bay shore, picking up Green-wing Teal at Bivalve and Bobwhite, Red Knot at Cook's Beach, before swinging across to Hereford Inlet. Here we come across our fourth Peregrine of the day, but the highlights were a Red-breasted Merganser, followed by a Brown Pelican, distant Gannet and then a Great Cormorant. Mike shouts that he has a Tri-colored Heron, but it disappears before anyone gets onto it. At Poverty Beach a nesting Piping Plover and Royal Terns on the pilings. This time it was far more pleasant, but still no Black Rail.