My highlights over the past seven days included the following:

• 2 Red Crossbills, feeding on Scots Pine here at the store, 5/1.
• 1 continuing PROPOSED TRICOLORED HERON X SNOWY EGRET X LITTLE EGRET hybrid, Pelreco Marsh, Scarborough Marsh, 5/2 (with clients from Maine.  Full explanation in an upcoming article in North American Birds slated to be published this fall).
• 10 species of warblers (FOY; finally!) led by only 9 Pine Warblers and 7 Black-and-white Warblers but including 1 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, Morgan Meadow WMA, Raymond, 5/7.
• 1 Evening Grosbeak, Morgan Meadow WMA, 5/7.

As the Neotropical migrant floodgates open, my personal first-of-years and new spring arrivals included:

• 1 continuing TRICOLORED HERON, Spurwink Marsh, 5/2 (with clients from Maine).
• 6 Piping Plovers, Western Beach, Scarbrough, 5/2 (with clients from Maine).
• 1 Least Sandpiper, Dunstan Landing, Scarborough Marsh, 5/2 (with clients from Maine).
• 3 Willets, Scarborough Marsh, 5/2 (with clients from Maine).
• 1 Ovenbird, our yard in Pownal, 5/3.
• 1 Northern Parula, our yard in Pownal, 5/3.
• 1 Black-throated Green Warbler, our yard in Pownal, 5/3.
• 1 Baltimore Oriole, feeders here at the store, 5/4.
• 1 Northern Waterthrush, Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 5/5.
• 1 Nashville Warbler, Florida Lake Park, 5/5.
• 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler, Runaround Pond, Durham, 5/6.
• 3 Black-throated Blue Warblers, Morgan Meadow WMA, 5/7.
• 4 Common Yellowthroats, Morgan Meadow WMA, 5/7.
• 1 Yellow Warbler, Morgan Meadow WMA, 5/7.
• 1 Warbling Vireo, Morgan Meadow WMA, 5/7.
• 1 Veery, Morgan Meadow WMA, 5/7.
• 3 Chimney Swifts, Bradbury Mountain Spring Hawkwatch, 5/7.
• 1 Blackburnian Warbler, Bradbury Mountain Spring Hawkwatch, 5/7.