Completely and totally skunked! Zero birds counted in morning flight, just a few hanging out in the trees. We did get a flyby Marbled Godwit, complements of Michael O'Brien, a new species for the dike this season.
Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 9/22/09
Number of species: 54
Mallard 6
Blue-winged Teal 8
Northern Shoveler 8
Green-winged Teal 4
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Little Blue Heron 1
Osprey 2
Merlin 1
Black-bellied Plover 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Western Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 45
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 55
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 7
Royal Tern 6
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 8
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 12
Tree Swallow 45
Carolina Chickadee 3
Carolina Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Veery 3
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 55
Cedar Waxwing 7
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 3
American Redstart 1
Northern Waterthrush 3
Common Yellowthroat 4
Eastern Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 2
Bobolink 6
Red-winged Blackbird 45
Common Grackle 4
American Goldfinch 4
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