Notes from May

 I forgot the exact dates but around mid-May I was surprised to find a Blackburnian and then a Bay Breasted Warbler in the trees down the street from me.  I feel like I had better luck birding in my own neighborhood than at the preserve by my house.  I recently made a small trip to Calvert Park in Brooklyn with Snouty to try to see a continuing Western Grebe but we had bad luck that day because the bird must have decided to leave the night before. (grrr)  I expected to see a Western Grebe when I was in California so feel like a sore loser that I struck out again.