Morning Flight Saturday October 2, 2010

Today was the first big late season flight. Over 12,500 total birds were tallied, dominated by warblers with Yellow-rumped and Palm being the only truly dominant species, though Northern Parula put in a strong showing as well. Highlights aside from the spectacle included an impressive showing of Red-bellied Woodpeckers (18) and good numbers of Tennessee Warblers.

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 10/2/10
Notes: first Yellow-rumped flight of the fall; cool clear with NW breeze, flight went on until 12:30 PM
Number of species: 48

Red-bellied Woodpecker 18
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 31
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 768
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 11
Red-eyed Vireo 9
Red-breasted Nuthatch 66
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 26
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
American Robin 260
Northern Mockingbird 1
American Pipit 9
Cedar Waxwing 1090
Tennessee Warbler 26
Nashville Warbler 4
Northern Parula 264
Yellow Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 9
Magnolia Warbler 33
Cape May Warbler 13
Black-throated Blue Warbler 58
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4669
Black-throated Green Warbler 18
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 6
Prairie Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1066
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 131
Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler 23
Black-and-white Warbler 25
American Redstart 23
Northern Waterthrush 15
Connecticut Warbler 2
warbler sp. 3732
Chipping Sparrow 5
Savannah Sparrow 13
Scarlet Tanager 13
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 15
Blue Grosbeak 5
Indigo Bunting 38
Dickcissel 3
Bobolink 2
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
Purple Finch 4
House Finch 5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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