[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 9/23

Hi all,

A moderate flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth, this am. Good diversity, but overall rather disappointing given the intensity of the flight overnight - no doubt due to the early passage of yesterday's cold front and winds rapidly diminishing to calm overnight. Hunting raptors (Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Cooper's Hawk) this morning didn't help the count, either.

6:28 - 9:20am

44F, mostly clear with very light NNW to N to calm.

With Marion Sprague

113 unidentified

76 Cedar Waxwings

75 Northern Parulas

54 Blue Jays

43 Northern Flickers

40 Yellow-rumped Warblers

23 Blackpoll Warblers

13 Black-throated Green Warblers

12 Purple Finches

10 Palm Warblers (first of fall)

10 American Goldfinches

7 Black-and-white Warblers

8 Chipping Sparrows

6 Black-capped Chickadees

5 Magnolia Warblers

4 American Redstarts

4 White-throated Sparrows

3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

3 American Robins

3 Cape May Warblers

3 Yellow Warblers

2 Least Flycatchers

2 Eastern Phoebes

2 Blue-headed Vireos

2 Red-eyed Vireos

2 Red-breasted Nuthatches

2 Nashville Warblers

2 Rusty Blackbirds (FOF)

1 Wood Duck

1 Osprey

1 Sharp-shinned Hawk

1 American Kestrel

1 Red-bellied Woodpecker

1 unidentified flycatcher

1 Tufted Titmouse

1 White-breasted Nuthatch

1 Brown Creeper

1 Swainson's Thrush

1 Blackburnian Warbler

1 Black-throated Blue Warbler

1 Scarlet Tanager

1 Dark-eyed Junco

1 House Finch

x Common Yellowthroat

T= 543

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

 541 Route One, Suite 10

 Freeport, ME 04032

 207-865-6000

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