Morning Flight - Friday, September 22, 2017

The songbird flight was dominated by Northern Flickers yesterday morning with a smattering of other goodies mixed in. Some of those goodies included an American Pipit, Dickcissel, and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Sure looks like fall is just around the corner!

Morning Flight Songbird Count for 9/22/2017
Species	Count today		Season total		Season maximum
	North	South	North	South	North only	Date(s)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	1	0	74	27	12	8/20
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	1	0	1	0	1	9/22
Northern Flicker	310	98	323	102	310	9/22
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	1	0	528	31	135	8/20
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	1	0	2	0	1	9/21
American Robin	0	4	44	13	12	8/20
American Pipit	1	0	1	1	1	9/22
Cedar Waxwing	29	0	2256	92	607	9/10
Northern Waterthrush	6	1	601	90	48	8/25
Black-and-white Warbler	3	0	848	33	326	9/8
Tennessee Warbler	2	0	220	0	172	9/8
American Redstart	10	2	18203	222	12244	9/8
Northern Parula	34	8	916	23	481	9/8
Magnolia Warbler	1	0	125	5	63	9/8
Blackpoll Warbler	1	0	74	0	23	9/8
Palm Warbler	8	0	23	15	8	9/8
Savannah Sparrow	5	0	16	0	5	9/17
Indigo Bunting	3	2	63	17	6	8/16
Dickcissel	1	0	8	9	2	9/1
Bobolink	1	0	2547	5066	507	9/9
Red-winged Blackbird	1	21	1946	1524	316	8/24
Baltimore Oriole	1	0	189	46	70	9/1
American Goldfinch	9	0	35	7	11	9/15

Your daily dose of Bald Eagle from the dike. The local eagles seem to love looking out over their kingdom from the other side of our dirt pile.

One of the many Northern Flickers flying right past the count.

Here's one of those funky flickers with a splash of pink in his normally yellow flight feathers. You can see lots of these tie-dye flickers throughout the fall here but don't jump to the "hybrid" word; the pink feathers are diet-related.

My FOS (first-of-season) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker flying away.

American Pipit enjoying the glamorous dirt pile.