What a day at the Hawkwatch. The platform list for the season gained several species, including Cattle Egret, American Bittern, Dickcissel, and Parasitic Jaeger, but the real show was from shorebirds. We tallied 653 Lesser Yellowlegs flowing by, and most of the flocks contained other species, largely Stilt (20+) and Pectoral (17), but also a few Dowitchers, 9 Semipalmated Sandpipers, and 2 Wilson's Phalaropes. The highlight shorebirds though, were 2 adult HUDSONIAN GODWITS still retainng some breeding plumage. We almost certainly missed a few shorebird flocks, and a couple of large ones were too far offshore to identify with any sort of certainty. Raptor-wise (this IS a hawkwatch after all) there wasn't a ton of variety, but Ospreys were definitely on the move through the middle of the day, Merlins had a small movement early, and a single Northern Harrier was nice.
My complete eBird lists follows:
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 13
Gadwall 1
American Wigeon 6
Mallard X
Green-winged Teal 8
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Brown Pelican 12
Double-crested Cormorant 100
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron 12
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 9
Little Blue Heron 1
Cattle Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 8
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 12
Osprey 67
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 6
Broad-winged Hawk 1 The same non-migrant that's been hanging around for
a few days.
American Kestrel 5
Merlin 21
Peregrine Falcon 1
Greater Yellowlegs 25
Lesser Yellowlegs 653
Whimbrel 1 S-N calling flyby over Bunker Pond
Hudsonian Godwit 2 Close flyby adults, 9:15 AM
Semipalmated Sandpiper 11
Least Sandpiper 15
Pectoral Sandpiper 17
Stilt Sandpiper 20
Short-billed Dowitcher 7
Wilson's Phalarope 2 Flyovers with separate Lesser Yellowlegs flocks.
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 1
Common Tern 200
Forster's Tern 40
Royal Tern 20
Parasitic Jaeger 2
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Common Nighthawk 2
Chimney Swift X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Fish Crow X
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 1500
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 2
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 50
Carolina Chickadee X
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 1
Gray Catbird X
Northern Mockingbird X
European Starling X
American Pipit 1 calling flyover, seemed to drop down near the bunker
Cedar Waxwing X
Yellow Warbler 12
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Northern Waterthrush 8
Common Yellowthroat X
Song Sparrow X
Northern Cardinal X
Indigo Bunting 1
Dickcissel 2
Bobolink 700
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle 2
Baltimore Oriole 54
American Goldfinch X
House Sparrow X
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