[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 9/26 (3.5K, 16spp warblers, Dickcissel, Pileated Woodpecker) and Additional Highlights This Week.

Hi all,

An exceptional flight passed over and through Sandy Point, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning.

6:32-10:10am

43F, light NW, mostly cloudy, slowly clearing.

 

1662 Unidentified (*2^nd highest)

441 Yellow-rumped Warblers (*2^nd highest)

263 Northern Parulas (how are there still so many parulas!?)

193 Black-throated Green Warblers  (*2^nd highest)

188 Ruby-crowned Kinglets (*2^nd highest)

150 Northern Flickers

56 Golden-crowned Kinglets

52 Magnolia Warblers (*2^nd highest)

46 Black-throated Blue Warblers (*new record; old = 13!)

44 Cedar Waxwings

44 Dark-eyed Juncos

41 Black-and-white Warblers (*2^nd highest)

31 Red-eyed Vireos

29 Blue-headed Vireos (2^nd highest)

27 Blackpoll Warblers

26 Eastern Phoebes (*new record)

26 Nashville Warblers

23 Palm Warblers

22 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers

15 American Robins

15 American Goldfinches

14 Blue Jays

12 Scarlet Tanagers

12 Rusty Blackbirds

9 White-throated Sparrows

8 Eastern Bluebirds (*new record)

7 Philadelphia Vireos

7 Chipping Sparrows

6 Peregrine Falcons (*new record)

6 Unidentified vireos

6 Brown Creepers

5 Yellow Warblers

4 Tufted Titmice (*new record)

4 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks

3 Black-capped Chickadees

3 Tennessee Warblers

2 Sharp-shinned Hawks

2 Cape May Warblers

2 Wilson's Warblers

1 Red-breasted Merganser (first of fall)

1 Common Loon

1 American Kestrel

1 Merlin

1 Mourning Dove

1 PILEATED WOODPECKER (my third crossing ever; crossed after 4 false-starts)

1 RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER (crossed after 3 false-starts)

1 Warbling Vireo

1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

1 White-breasted Nuthatch

1 Swainson's Thrush

1 Bay-breasted Warbler

1 Common Yellowthroat

1 Swamp Sparrow

1 Lincoln's Sparrow

1 DICKCISSEL (4^th of season)

1 Red-winged Blackbird

Total= 3523 (*third highest total)

A little more analysis, and a look at the radar from last night is on my blog today:

http://mebirdingfieldnotes.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/yet-another-great-morning-flight-at-sandy-point/

 

Meanwhile with most of my time this week at Sandy Point, following a weekend on Monhegan, I don't have a long list of "additional highlights this week," but a couple of observations of mine from the past seven days include:

- 2 1st-cycle LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, Hardy Boat between Monhegan and New Harbor, 9/22 (with Jeannette; photos by Jeannette).

- 2 Wilson's Snipe, Greely Road, Cumberland, 9/23.

- 2 continuing SANDHILL CRANES (present since at least 9/3), Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 9/24 (with Jeannette).

 

Now, back to Monhegan...I hope there are still some birds in the pipeline!

-Derek

 

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