[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 8/31

Hi all,

Back home and back in "my office," a moderate flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning.

6:01-8:40am.

50F, clear, NW 1.3mph diminishing to 0.7

113 American Redstarts

100 Northern Parulas

53 unidentified

14 Cape May Warblers

12 Red-breasted Nuthatches

7 Yellow Warblers

7 Bobolinks

5 Red-eyed Vireos

5 Black-and-white Warblers

5 American Goldfinches

4 Purple Finches

3 Magnolia Warblers

2 Tree Swallows

2 Least Flycatchers

2 Eastern Kingbirds

2 American Robins

2 Tennessee Warblers

2 Black-throated Green Warblers

2 Northern Waterthrushes

1 Solitary Sandpiper

1 Spotted Sandpiper

1 "Traill's" Flycatchert

1 Olive-sided Flycatcjer

1 Veery

1 DICKCISSEL (almost nabbed by the Merlin)

1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1 Scarlet Tanager

1 Chipping Sparrow

1 Common Grackle

1 RED CROSSBILL

x Common Yellowthroats

T=353

-Derek

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

 541 Route One, Suite 10

 Freeport, ME 04032

 207-865-6000

 www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com  

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