Morning Flight - 25 August 2013

I was surprised by the lack of birds today. I thought we'd have a least a halfway decent flight, but nothing really surfaced other than left over drips of the open faucet from yesterday's flight. We did have the season's first Connecticut Warbler fly over, a few juvenile Northern Mockingbirds which are vey striking, so I can't complain too much!

In the constantly annoying department Juvenile Laughing Gulls are still begging insistently to their adult parents gleaning cicadas from cicada killer wasps without much success. Yet the babies still think it's worthwhile to drive their parents (and me) nuts. The only way to ease the sound of the never-ending begging is to imagine if you could talk Laughing Gull, what would they be saying? I tend to think it goes something like this:

http://youtu.be/cNkp4QF3we8

56° F
NNE @ 0-5 MPH
Clear conditions

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 6
Empidonax sp. - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 52
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 6
Cedar Waxwing - 6
Northern Parula - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Cape May Warbler - 2
Prairie Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 4
American Redstart - 15
Northern Waterthrush - 9
Connecticut Warbler - 1
Bobolink - 41
Baltimore Oriole - 1

Total: 152

Juvenile Northern Mockingbird

Indigo Bunting

Adult male Indigo Bunting

Juvenile Laughing Gull