Re: [Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 9/23 (almost 3K, including19 species of warblers inc. yet another CONNECTICUT; 1 DICKCISSEL).

Plus - One Eastern Towhee in the shrubbery. 

Stella

On Sep 23, 2013, at 18:20, Derek and Jeannette Lovitch <freeportwildbird@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi all,

A great flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning.

6:28 – 10:05am.

43F, increasing W to NW, clear.

1338 Unidentifed (*2^nd highest)

416 Northern Parulas (* Seriously, how are there any more parulas to come through!  This is the second highest count of all time, and now all three of the highest tallies are from this year!)

281 Northern Flickers

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

163 Blackpoll Warblers

91 Yellow-rumped Warblers

43 Black-and-white Warblers (*record high)

39 Red-eyed Vireos

35 American Redstarts

29 Blue Jays

29 Ruby-crowned Kinglets

23 Yellow Warblers

22 Blue-headed Vireos

21 Scarlet Tanagers (*record high)

21 Dark-eyed Juncos

19 Cedar Waxwings

18 Magnolia Warblers

17 Nashville Warblers (*record high)

17 American Goldfinches

13 Black-throated Blue Warblers

12 Eastern Phoebes (* ties high)

11 Swainson's Thrushes

9 Palm Warblers

6 Rusty Blackbirds

5 American Robins

4 Unidentified vireos

4 Chestnut-sided Warblers

4 White-throated Sparrows

3 Least Flycatchers

3 Cape May Warblers

3 Bay-breasted Warblers

2 Common Loons

2 Broad-winged Hawks

2 TUFTED TITMICE (rarely seen crossing)

2 Unidentified thrushes

2 Golden-crowned Kinglets

2 Blackburnian Warblers

2 Common Yellowthroats

1 Osprey

1 American Kestrels

1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

1 Eastern Wood-Pewee

1 Common Raven

1 Philadelphia Vireos

1 Veery

1 Tennessee Warbler

1 CONNECTICUT WARBLER (My third of the season here; it's the fall of the CONWs in Maine!)

1 Northern Waterthrushes

1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1 DICKCISSEL (third of the season here)

1 Baltimore Oriole

Total = 2, 905 (4^th highest tally all time for me)

 

Radar analysis:

http://mebirdingfieldnotes.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/monhegan-island-920-222013/

 

-Derek

 

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