Fake News?

On Friday March 27,  Josh and I set out to hike around Smith Point from Madaket.  What a day!  It was warm and sunny and lots of people were outside...we could tell from the number of cars parked at Sanford Farm;  they were parked out on Madaket Road!  The hike was beautiful.  

We saw 5 seals,  3 alive and 2 dead

Winter kill

Sign of spring:  2 piping plovers

 When we came back into Madaket Village, I saw this bird on a wire...and knew it was a flycatcher.  I called it an Eastern Kingbird, and put it up on eBird with this picture.  The Boston Globe on Sunday mentioned in the Bird sighting that an Eastern Kingbird had been seen in Madaket.  Oops.  My first sighting mentioned in the Globe....and it wasn't an Eastern Kingbird,  but more likely a Phoebe!  Ken Blackshaw and the ebird moderator both wrote to me that it was likely a Phoebe because the kingbirds are still in South America. I am sorry that I created FAKE NEWS.

A phoebe,  not an Eastern Kingfisher