Morning Flight Tuesday September 29

We just about got blown off the dike this morning! The wind was WNW but far too strong for a good flight. We did have 3 Connecticut Warblers.

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 9/29/09
Number of species: 76

Mallard 3
Blue-winged Teal 5
Northern Shoveler 8
Green-winged Teal 4
Black Scoter 1
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Snowy Egret 8
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 2
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 2
Semipalmated Plover 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 55
Ring-billed Gull 12
Herring Gull 20
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 7
Royal Tern 6
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 8
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 18
Tree Swallow 45
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 1
Marsh Wren 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 35
Cedar Waxwing 18
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 6
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 11
Bay-breasted Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler 31
American Redstart 3
Connecticut Warbler 3
Chipping Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 1
Dickcissel 1
Red-winged Blackbird 14
Common Grackle 5
Baltimore Oriole 23
American Goldfinch 5