Morning Flight - 21 October 2013

Finally, a good flight day with excellent lighting! Kinglets were very strong throughout, initially Golden-crowns dominated but then petered out, while Ruby-crowned Kinglets continued to fly to the very end. Blue-headed Vireos flew out, some very close. And lastly I was very excited to see a Yellow-billed Cuckoo fly out shortly with a lot of tail molt, but thought better of being out in the open and quickly ducked back into the trees.

43° F
Calm winds
Clear conditions

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
Northern Flicker - 18
Eastern Phoebe - 5
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 97
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 329
kinglet sp. - 184
American Robin - 42
American Pipit - 3
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Northern Parula - 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3,800
Pine Warbler - 2
Palm Warbler - 27
Blackpoll Warbler - 10
"Baypoll" Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
warbler sp. - 3,610
Chipping Sparrow - 90
Savannah Sparrow - 14
Dark-eyed Junco - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Eastern Meadowlark - 9
Rusty Blackbird - 4
Blue-headed Vireo - 4
Brown Creeper - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 1
Blue Jay - 18
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Field Sparrow - 2

Total: 8,298

Eastern Meadowlark winging it south

Blue Jays have been flying by, some with acorns!

American Robin by the moon!

There were lots of Red-bellied Woodpeckers this morning,
but they returned to the trees in Higbees.

Dark-eyed Juncos are finally starting to fly out with
consistency, hope to have a big day of these! 

There was 329 Ruby-crowned Kinglets flying out from the dike
this morning, 610 kinglets all told- luckily most of them
 fly low and close for identification but Ruby's tend to fly
high and out, unlike they Golden-crowned brothers and sisters.