[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 8/24 (15 spp of warblers inc. LOWA)

Hi all,

A very good early-season flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning.

5:56-9:05am.

Start: 58F, mostly cloudy, NW 7.5mph

End:  65F, mostly sunny, NW 5.2mph.

133 American Redstarts

115 unidentified

47 Northern Parulas

24 Yellow Warblers

20 Cedar Waxwings

20 Black-throated Green Warblers

9 Magnolia Warblers

7 Mourning Doves *(new high count)

7 Cape May Warblers

6 American Goldfinches

5 Barn Swallows

4 Least Flycatchers

4 Northern Waterthrushes *(3rd highest count)

4 Black-and-white Warblers

4 Bobolinks

3 Prairie Warblers

3 Black-throated Blue Warblers

2 Eastern Wood-Pewees

2 unidentified flycatchers

2 unidentified Empids

2 Black-capped Chickadees

2 Blackburnian Warblers

2 Chestnut-sided Warblers

2 Wilson's Warblers

1 Blue-winged Teal

1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

1 Olive-sided Flycatcher

1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

1 unidentified vireo

1 White-breasted Nuthatch

1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

1 Tennessee Warbler

1 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH (My 183rd species here and one that I have felt is long overdue..except I'm not here in late July through mid-August).

1 Red-winged Blackbird

1 Baltimore Oriole 

T= 439   

-Derek

 

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

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