Morning Flight Friday October 29, 2010- Part 1

There is another excellent night flight going on in Cape May right now, so I won't be putting up a summary of today for a bit. However, since the flight was mind-boggling, here are the numbers, with especially good flights of American Robin, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco, Pine Siskin, Rusty Blackbird, and Sparrows in general (birds counted as part of Morning Flight in bold):

Total individuals counted: 145,484

Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 10/29/10
Number of species: 62

Canada Goose X
Surf/Black Scoter 20
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Black Vulture X
Turkey Vulture X
Bald Eagle 4
Northern Harrier 18
Sharp-shinned Hawk 300
Cooper's Hawk 25
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 35
Merlin 15
Peregrine Falcon 3
Killdeer 26
American Woodcock 4
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Forster's Tern 14
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 47
Eastern Phoebe 16
Blue-headed Vireo 1

American Crow X
Fish Crow X
Tree Swallow 4
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 28
kinglet sp. 7
Eastern Bluebird 3
Hermit Thrush 9
Many more were seen on the ground pre-dawn, but 9
actually participated in Morning Flight, which is unusual for Catharus Thrushes.

American Robin 73570
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 63640
Pine Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 47

Common Yellowthroat 4
warbler sp. 2250
Chipping Sparrow 335
Field Sparrow 4
Vesper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 6
Fox Sparrow 1

Song Sparrow 400
Lincoln's Sparrow 1 On Dike
Swamp Sparrow 150
White-throated Sparrow 300
Dark-eyed Junco 3397
sparrow sp. 460

Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 5000
Rusty Blackbird 237
Common Grackle 50
Purple Finch 26
House Finch 4
Pine Siskin 533
American Goldfinch 400

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