Morning Flight Monday October 5

Finally! A huge and somewhat unexpected flight! I thought the wind would be too strong for a big movement of passerines but was quickly proven wrong. As expected for this time of year, Palms and Yellow-rumpeds were the dominate species. The overall diversity was fairly good though and 20 species of warblers were observed. The total number of individual warblers was 1750 including 921 unidentified warblers. Early on I got a call from Doug, who was counting at the Seawatch, about a goose that was flying with 4 Canada Geese that he believed was a Cackling Goose. Forty-five minutes later a Cackling Goose with 4 Canada Geese appeared! Number 210 for the Dike species list this fall!

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 10/5/09
Number of species: 94

Cackling Goose 1
Canada Goose 30
Wood Duck 5
Mallard 4
Blue-winged Teal 6
Northern Shoveler 5
Green-winged Teal 4
Black Scoter 1
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Snowy Egret 3
Black Vulture 6
Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 3
Bald Eagle 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 65
Cooper's Hawk 12
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 3
Merlin 4
Peregrine Falcon 1
Semipalmated Plover 3
Killdeer 47
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 4
Laughing Gull 55
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 35
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 6
Royal Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 8
Mourning Dove 3
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 76
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 3
Warbling Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 15
American Crow 30
Fish Crow 12
Tree Swallow 200
Carolina Chickadee 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 95
Cedar Waxwing 250
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 8
Nashville Warbler 8
Northern Parula 71
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 5
Cape May Warbler 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler 42
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 250
Black-throated Green Warbler 7
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Pine Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 363
Bay-breasted Warbler 3
Blackpoll Warbler 41
Black-and-white Warbler 8
American Redstart 11
Northern Waterthrush 2
Connecticut Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 6
Scarlet Tanager 9
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 3
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 8
Indigo Bunting 17
Bobolink 5
Red-winged Blackbird 95
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 8