Morning Flight Friday September 18, 2009

Another very slow morning. Luckily a molting juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher was there from sunrise through the end of the count to brighten up the slow monotony of the flight. 107 re-determined migrants were counted. Tomorrow should be much better.

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 9/18/09
Number of species: 48

Mute Swan 4
Mallard X
Blue-winged Teal 6
Northern Shoveler 4
Green-winged Teal 10
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron 1
Snowy Egret 12
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 1
Merlin 4
Semipalmated Plover 1
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 6
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern X
Royal Tern 1
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
crow sp. X
Tree Swallow X
Carolina Wren 6
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 19
Tennessee Warbler 2
Northern Parula 28
Yellow Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 5
American Redstart 35
Northern Waterthrush 6
warbler sp. 17
Northern Cardinal X
Blue Grosbeak 2
Red-winged Blackbird X

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