Expectations. Sometimes they are met or exceeded sometimes they are not. Today, unfortunately, fell in the later category. It wasn't a bad morning, in fact it was pretty good, but I expected excellent and was disappointed. There was an solid flight of northbound Bobolinks, over 1300. Also, the first signs of the progression of fall were evident with a trickle of Blackpolls and Palm Warblers. The highlights were an immature Red-headed Woodpecker and a flyover Long-billed Dowitcher. Hint for morning flight visitors: get there early. Lately more than 75% of the flight has occurred in the first hour after dawn, roughly 6:45-7:45.
Mallard 6
Blue-winged Teal 6
Northern Shoveler 4
Northern Pintail 1
Green-winged Teal 8
Brown Pelican 1
Double-crested Cormorant 45
Great Blue Heron 1
Snowy Egret 3
Osprey 4
Bald Eagle 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 2
Merlin 8
Semipalmated Plover 2
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 18
Least Sandpiper 4
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull 85
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 45
Caspian Tern 4
Royal Tern 9
Rock Pigeon 12
Mourning Dove 3
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 6
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Least Flycatcher 1
Empidonax sp. 2
Eastern Kingbird 76
White-eyed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 4
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 18
Fish Crow 2
Purple Martin 3
Tree Swallow 145
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 3
Carolina Wren 8
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Veery 2
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 145
Cedar Waxwing 15
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 56
Yellow Warbler 11
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
Magnolia Warbler 5
Cape May Warbler 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 13
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 3
Palm Warbler 5
Blackpoll Warbler 24
Black-and-white Warbler 9
American Redstart 121
Northern Waterthrush 15
Common Yellowthroat 6
Northern Cardinal 8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 1307
Red-winged Blackbird 90
Common Grackle 6
Baltimore Oriole 13
American Goldfinch 1
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