Morning Flight Thursday September 17 2009

A blustery morning with very few birds. Surprisingly, one of the weakest fliers, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, made an attempt to fight through the wind. A Seaside Sparrow, spotted by Scott Whittle, was a major surprise. Quite out of character it spent its time running around amid the frag!

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 9/17/09
Number of species: 67

Canada Goose 7
Mallard 4
Blue-winged Teal 5
Northern Shoveler 5
Green-winged Teal 2
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Egret 2
Glossy Ibis 3
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 8
Bald Eagle 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 15
Merlin 10
Peregrine Falcon 1
Semipalmated Plover 3
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 12
Least Sandpiper 5
Laughing Gull 45
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 40
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 4
Royal Tern 6
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 5
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 8
Eastern Kingbird 6
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 18
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 215
Bank Swallow 1
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 45
Carolina Chickadee 3
Carolina Wren 5
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 16
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 8
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 35
Cedar Waxwing 15
Tennessee Warbler 1
Northern Parula 2
Palm Warbler (Western) 2
American Redstart 2
Northern Waterthrush 7
Common Yellowthroat 4
Seaside Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 6
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 11
Red-winged Blackbird 35
Common Grackle 3
Baltimore Oriole 7
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 12

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