Morning Flight Friday September 24, 2010

Southeast Winds and fog. Enough said. In fact, the fog early on was so thick we couldn't even see Delaware Bay from the Dike. It was a very slow day, with little excitement in the way of Passerines (although singles of Blackpoll Warbler and Ruby-crowned Kinglet did perch very cooperatively at the dike). A flyby juvenile Little Blue Heron was the species highlight of the morning.

Complete eBird list below (w/ Morning Flight species in bold):

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 9/24/10
Number of species: 35

Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 3
Little Blue Heron 1
Osprey 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1 (Calling flyover)
Laughing Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Royal Tern 12
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 4
Empidonax sp. 1 (Presumably Alder, but a better look would have been ideal).
Red-eyed Vireo 1

Blue Jay 25
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
Carolina Wren 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 2
Northern Parula 3
Palm Warbler 5
Blackpoll Warbler 2
American Redstart 6
Northern Waterthrush 2
warbler sp. 7

Savannah Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 3
Bobolink 27

Red-winged Blackbird 10
House Finch 7
American Goldfinch X

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