May is off to a good start with a continued influx of birds with decent migration conditions. The first day of the month produced over a hundred species despite me not be able to stay out as long due to some commitments at home. Today started off with some thunderstorms that moved through starting around 3:20AM which woke me up and had me worried Wilson would be a mess (which is typically the case). After lots of flashes and rumbles and me waiting for Wilson to lose it he finally woke up and wandered a little around 4:30 and seemed totally unfazed...a positive aspect of him becoming nearly deaf I guess. Still surprised the rumbling didn't make him nervous. After waiting around a bit to see if he remained calm (which he did) I headed out to a few areas to check on arriving migrants before I headed back home. I almost stayed around the Quabbin area to see if any migrants got put down by the weather but was afraid the fog would make seeing anything at the dam impossible so I headed to Amherst and Hadley instead (there were a number of unusual waterfowl put down in Franklin County at Barton's Cove so perhaps I should have stayed at Quabbin...always the problem of spring...too many places to be at the same time to try to catch something interesting. I decided to concentrate on warblers and had some good luck with the highlight being a Brewster's Warbler. Even without a lot of time I managed a hundred species today and 104 yesterday...gotta love May! The weather now looks to take a rainy turn as a cut off low in the Ohio valley will continue to pinwheel in rain from time to time until at least Wednesday. At least it will not be rainy all the time and the rain could even result in some species being put down by the weather.
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