Morning Flight - 21 August 2013

To give our Morning Flight Counter, Sam, a day free from the constant effort of focusing on every possible bird that flies by the dike, I filled-in to count. Muggy and still conditions at dawn were atypical of the weather conditions since the count began on the 15th of August. The flight was very light but still discernible as migration behavior.

Within 10 minutes after a spectacularly hazy and red rising sun (sunspots nicely viewed through a scope) the highlights of Prothonotary Warbler and Dickcissel had passed by. Then a male Black-throated Blue Warbler came at waist-height, atop the dike, and attempted to fly between me and the other two chaps up there this morning, Matt Garvey and Sam Galick. Wait, isn't today your day off, Sam!?! Well, he just can't get enough Morning Flight in his life. That's a wonderful problem to have!

Glen Davis

68° F
W @ 0-5 MPH
Muggy conditions

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
American Robin - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Blue-winged Warbler - 1
Yellow Warbler - 12
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Prairie Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 6
Prothonotary Warbler - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 8
warbler sp. - 2
Dickcissel - 1
Bobolink - 33 southbound
Baltimore Oriole - 1
Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush - 1

Total: 82

A full eBird checklist is here:  http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14971391

Today was an impromptu bring your doggy to the dike day- on the right we have Sam's Border Collie, Captain, and Matt Garvey's Rat Terrier, Sydney!

Matt Garvey (left) and Sam Galick(right) waiting for birds to exit

Bobolink winging it south
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