We were expecting a tremendous flight of Yellow-rumps, but instead we had a fairly small number of Yellow-rumps but great light and good diversity. Highlights included a very late Connecticut Warbler, 22 White-rumped Sandpipers, a Vespers Sparrow, and a Orange-crowned Warbler that we failed to see during the day but Michael O'Brien found a photo of when view his shots from the morning.
After an internet debacle over the past few weeks we are way behind on blog postings. I will try to enter some of the old totals so everyone can catch up.
Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 10/20/09
Number of species: 101
Brant 1
Canada Goose 18
Blue-winged Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 6
Common Loon 14
Double-crested Cormorant 115
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 3
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 55
Cooper's Hawk 12
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 3
Merlin 1
Black-bellied Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 12
Killdeer 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 9
Sanderling 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Least Sandpiper 14
White-rumped Sandpiper 22 Great count! All Juvs, a few beginning to molt mantle feathers. Some size variation between heavier chested individual and those that looked more like BASA.
Pectoral Sandpiper 6
Dunlin 8
Laughing Gull 65
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 35
Great Black-backed Gull 60
Forster's Tern 5
Royal Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 35
Mourning Dove 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 29
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue-headed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 35
American Crow 80
Fish Crow 12
Tree Swallow 400
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 10
Brown Creeper 2
Carolina Wren 6
House Wren 2
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 40
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 177
Hermit Thrush 2
American Robin 644
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 3
European Starling 300
American Pipit 15
Cedar Waxwing 53
Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Michael found a photo of one after the dike.
Nashville Warbler 4
Northern Parula 10
Yellow Warbler 1 Late.
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1800 Southbound
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 2124 Northbound
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 52
Blackpoll Warbler 27
Black-and-white Warbler 2
Connecticut Warbler 1 Quite late for the dike
Common Yellowthroat 8
Scarlet Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 12
Field Sparrow 1
Vesper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 20
White-throated Sparrow 25
White-crowned Sparrow 4
Dark-eyed Junco 23
Northern Cardinal 8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Dickcissel 2
Red-winged Blackbird 550
Eastern Meadowlark 11
Rusty Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 12
Baltimore Oriole 1
Purple Finch 7
House Finch 8
American Goldfinch 45
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