Morning Flight Thursday October 22

Well, it finally happened! I had been hoping for a big Yellow-rumped flight and today was the day. Fortunately I had help, a huge thanks to Derek Lovitch and Michael O'Brien for helping me count. Our combined efforts netted 23,717 Yellow-rumped Warblers! It was a pretty incredible show. We also had a significant uptic in the number of White-rumped Sandpipers, the count today was 42, which may be a Cape Island high count. Other than Yellow-rumpeds, the passerine flight was pretty uninspired with very low diversity. The were quite a few Northern Gannets leaving the Bay and Michael spotted a Parasitic Jaeger chasing a Laughing Gull.

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 10/22/09
Number of species: 83

Mallard 6
Surf Scoter 1
Black Scoter 300
Common Loon 3
Northern Gannet 42
Double-crested Cormorant 12
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 3
Bald Eagle 3
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 70
Cooper's Hawk 9
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 5
Merlin 6
Semipalmated Plover 12
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Least Sandpiper 18
White-rumped Sandpiper 42 Perhaps a high count for Cape Is.
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 8
Laughing Gull 120
Ring-billed Gull 17
Herring Gull 40
Great Black-backed Gull 60
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 3
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Rock Pigeon 65
Mourning Dove 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 9
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 30
American Crow 15
Fish Crow 60
Tree Swallow 500
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 1
Winter Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Eastern Bluebird 2
Hermit Thrush 2
American Robin 2595
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 3
European Starling 60
American Pipit 9
Cedar Waxwing 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 23717 Huge! Derek and Michael helped count. Southbound into light SW wind.
Palm Warbler 70
Blackpoll Warbler 16
Common Yellowthroat 4
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 92
Savannah Sparrow 17
Song Sparrow 6
Swamp Sparrow 12
White-throated Sparrow 8
Dark-eyed Junco 15
Northern Cardinal 8
Bobolink 1
Red-winged Blackbird 125
Eastern Meadowlark 12
Common Grackle 6
Purple Finch 4
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 24
House Sparrow 3

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