Recently I visited Sherwood Island State Park. The Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) maintains a listing of all bird sightings reported by members. The lists are emailed daily with an archive maintained on the site. If you have a chance to check the site out, I highly recommend it. It really is a great system.
One recent report had sightings of Short Eared Owls in the field behind the model airplane field so I ventured there to see what I could find.

When I arrived at the park, I realized I made a rookie mistake. I didn’t check the tide tables. Unfortunately, it was low tied, and any shore birds were well outside the distance of my 600mm f/4.

So I headed over to the model airplane field and walked along the creek and around the bird feeders. There was a lot of bird activity. Unfortunately not great photo opportunities but some great birds none the less. There were two Osprey building a nest on a platform in the creek, the first Osprey I have seen in CT this year. There were a pair of Boat Tail Grackle in the trees hiding among the branches as well as Starlings and many Red Winged Blackbirds. Unfortunately none of them made for good images. The one exception was a few Killdeer that were feeding in this field.

Have a great weekend!

Images captured by D3x, 600 VRII w/TCe 1.4II on Lexar UDMA digital film