Morning Flight, 29 September -- 1 October 2015

Birds and weather.  Weather and birds.  The two are completely intertwined.  There wasn't much flying over the Higbee dike during the last two days of September.  Interesting stuff like American Pipit, Dickcissel, and the first-of-season Eastern Meadowlark were the highlights for those days.  But yesterday had some morning arrivals that were present to be counted in the light rain.  These songbirds (predominated by 168 warblers of 16 species) were hop-scotching up and down the road below the dike, but not doing very dramatic Morning Flight moves over the Cape Island canal.

Species	29 Sept	30 Sept	1 Oct
Belted Kingfisher	1	1	1
Red-bellied Woodpecker		1
Downy Woodpecker	3		2
Northern Flicker	3	1	7
Eastern Phoebe			2
Red-eyed Vireo			3
European Starling	29	19
American Pipit	1
Cedar Waxwing	2		39
Northern Waterthrush			2
Black-and-white Warbler			13
Tennessee Warbler			2
Nashville Warbler			1
Common Yellowthroat			1
American Redstart	1	1	12
Cape May Warbler	1		1
Northern Parula	7	1	39
Magnolia Warbler	1		3
Yellow Warbler			1
Blackpoll Warbler	4		24
Black-throated Blue Warbler			8
Palm Warbler	2		24
Pine Warbler			1
Yellow-rumped Warbler			5
Black-throated Green Warbler			4
warbler sp.	3	1	27
Savannah Sparrow		2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	1		2
Indigo Bunting	1		6
Dickcissel		1
Eastern Meadowlark	1
House Finch	2
American Goldfinch	2
Total warblers	19	3	168
Total	65	28	230