Raptors, finally! The first few hours of the day made it seem like it was going to be a dud, but as soon as the clouds cleared and it warmed up the Sharpies started to move, and the Kestrels came a little while later. Ospreys were moving loosely all day. Also of note around the platform was a Yellow-breasted Chat, a crowd pleasing flyby Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and a flyby White-rumped Sandpiper. Bobolinks were pouring over all morning, and the count we got (thanks mostly to Tony Leukering's dilligent listing) was over 4500. Total # of migrant raptors for the day was 1,060.
Location: Cape Island--CMBO Hawk Watch Site
Observation date: 9/13/09
Notes: Light NNW wind throughout the day. Cloudy early with some drizzle at
times, clearing by ~10:30 AM when the raptor flight really picked up.
Number of species: 78
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 7
American Wigeon 9
Blue-winged Teal 12
Green-winged Teal 3
Double-crested Cormorant X
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 5
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 4
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 18
Osprey 185
Bald Eagle 16 One local adult stealing fish from various Ospreys, the
rest were deemed migrants.
Northern Harrier 12
Sharp-shinned Hawk 451
Cooper's Hawk 40
Broad-winged Hawk 6
Red-tailed Hawk 7
American Kestrel 243
Merlin 95
Peregrine Falcon 6
Semipalmated Plover 10
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2 flybys
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 97
Least Sandpiper 8
White-rumped Sandpiper 1 flyby
Stilt Sandpiper 9 flybys, including a pure flock of 8
Short-billed Dowitcher 8
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 4
Common Tern X
Forster's Tern X
Royal Tern 15
Black Skimmer X
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Common Nighthawk 3
Chimney Swift X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Empidonax sp. 1
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Fish Crow X
Tree Swallow 2500
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 2
Barn Swallow X
Carolina Chickadee X
Carolina Wren 5
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 8
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing X
Yellow Warbler 10
Magnolia Warbler 1
American Redstart 3
Northern Waterthrush 4
Common Yellowthroat 5
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 3
Indigo Bunting 3
Bobolink 4671
Red-winged Blackbird X
Baltimore Oriole 6
American Goldfinch X
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