Basically a typical day-after-a-big-flight kind of day. Some birds and good variety but it suffered from the comparison to yesterday. A flock of three adult Snow Geese was a pleasant surprise. Shorebird numbers are declining in the impoundment while waterfowl numbers are increasing.
Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 9/15/09
Number of species: 89
Snow Goose 3
Canada Goose 5
Mallard 4
Blue-winged Teal 7
Northern Shoveler 5
Green-winged Teal 5
Double-crested Cormorant 12
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 36
Little Blue Heron 1
Osprey 4
Bald Eagle 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 15
Cooper's Hawk 2
American Kestrel 8
Merlin 15
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 5
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 12
Semipalmated Sandpiper 9
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 115
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 45
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 12
Royal Tern 8
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 6
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 80
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Kingbird 5
White-eyed Vireo 1
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 8
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 45
Fish Crow 2
Tree Swallow 210
Barn Swallow 8
Carolina Chickadee 3
Carolina Wren 7
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Veery 3
American Robin 5
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 120
Cedar Waxwing 174
Tennessee Warbler 2
Nashville Warbler 7
Northern Parula 92
Yellow Warbler 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Cape May Warbler 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Blackburnian Warbler 3
Prairie Warbler 1
Palm Warbler (Western) 21
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 21
Black-and-white Warbler 19
American Redstart 119
Ovenbird 1
Northern Waterthrush 31
Connecticut Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 4
Wilson's Warbler 1
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Dickcissel 1
Bobolink 96
Red-winged Blackbird 45
Common Grackle 4
Baltimore Oriole 4
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 12
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