Quite an interesting morning on the dike; perhaps even weird. The Baltimore Oriole situation provides the best example of how things went this morning. Throughout the morning orioles were trickling south until the beginning of the third hour when the floodgates opened and about three hundred went south! Just as I was beginning to wonder if there was enough space on the Point for all these orioles, when 300 orioles came back north! Then 60 went south, and 84 went north, ect. I was just a bit puzzled. Otherwise there were few passerines in flight. There were tons of Lesser Yellowlegs and two Stilt Sandpipers. The main highlight was a dark bird I picked up through binoculars and I assumed was my first Parasitic Jaeger for the dike, but when I put it in the scope it was clear that it was something different. After some fumbling around I realized it was a Long-tailed Jaeger!
Finally, on a personal note, some of you may have seen post from me on the NJ list. Unfortunately my email has been hacked and I've spent the last two day trying to fix it. My apologizes for the additions to your spam.
Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 9/12/09
Number of species: 72
Mallard 4
Blue-winged Teal 3
Northern Shoveler 4
Green-winged Teal 8
Black Scoter 17
Brown Pelican 9
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 5
Bald Eagle 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 2
Merlin 8
Semipalmated Plover 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 85
Sanderling 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 40
Least Sandpiper 6
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 85
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 105
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 12
Long-tailed Jaeger 1
Rock Pigeon 35
Mourning Dove 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Kingbird 78
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 15
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 200
Barn Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Veery 2
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 45
Cedar Waxwing 6
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 4
Yellow Warbler 6
Magnolia Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 9
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 9
Northern Waterthrush 8
Clay-colored Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 7
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Dickcissel 3
Bobolink 300
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Common Grackle 2
Baltimore Oriole 353
American Goldfinch 2
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