Bluebirds and Pine Warblers

A bounty of birds at the Charles River Peninsula this afternoon. The bluebirds were less skittish than usual, allowing both well-focused photos and close-up views of their just-off-the-ground hovering.

And later I ran into their pals, the pine warblers, bug hunting in the ragweed.


Plus a lot of other birds (kinglet, palm warblers, yellow-rumped warblers) that I saw but photographed badly. I think the one below, despite the low quality, is worth showing, though. I thought at first it was a seagull (white body, black wings--even the way it moved was gull-like). But it clearly wasn't. What it actually was, I'm unqualified to say.