Morning Flight Tuesday October 6 2009

Tuesday brought a second day of solid movement at the dike. Clearly we are into the later part of fall but with enough remnants of the warmer months to keep the diversity high. While there were 19 species of warblers, today was the first day that Yellow-rumpeds absolutely dominated. There was an excellent raptor flight including a kettle of 32 Broad-wings that formed directly over the Dike. We also had a fantastic look at a Connecticut Warbler, perhaps the last of the season, and 9 Red-breasted Nuthatches.

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 10/6/09
Number of species: 105

Canada Goose 15
Mallard 2
Blue-winged Teal 5
Northern Shoveler 5
Green-winged Teal 4
Surf Scoter 8
Black Scoter 6
Double-crested Cormorant 35
Great Blue Heron 9
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 3
Black Vulture 6
Turkey Vulture 12
Osprey 5
Bald Eagle 4
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 80
Cooper's Hawk 15
Broad-winged Hawk 32
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 4
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 3
Killdeer 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 3
Laughing Gull 55
Ring-billed Gull 6
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 45
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 35
Mourning Dove 15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 39
Eastern Phoebe 3
Red-eyed Vireo 6
Blue Jay 35
American Crow 140
Fish Crow 3
Tree Swallow 150
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 9
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 400
Gray Catbird 8
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 3
European Starling 175
American Pipit 2
Cedar Waxwing 81
Tennessee Warbler 7
Nashville Warbler 4
Northern Parula 73
Yellow Warbler 3
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Cape May Warbler 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1686
Black-throated Green Warbler 23
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 245
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 28
Black-and-white Warbler 5
American Redstart 5
Connecticut Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 8
Scarlet Tanager 9
Chipping Sparrow 4
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1
Northern Cardinal 12
Indigo Bunting 20
Dickcissel 2
Bobolink 3
Red-winged Blackbird 35
Eastern Meadowlark 7
Common Grackle 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 18
Baltimore Oriole 2
Purple Finch 1
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 45
House Sparrow 8

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