[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 9/20/2020



Hi all,

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

6:22-10:10am.

Joined by Saturday Morning Birdwalk group at 8:22

39F, mostly clear, NW 6.7 to 9.8mph.

1261 Northern Flickers (*New record high*)

1246 Unidentified *1

335 Northern Parulas

292 American Robins *2

119 Yellow-rumped Warblers

69 Cedar Waxwings

57 Black-throated Green Warblers

43 Dark-eyed Juncos *3

36 Blackpoll Warblers

34 Red-breasted Nuthatches *4

34 Purple Finches *5

22 Cape May Warblers

18 American Redstarts

16 White-throated Sparrows

13 Blue Jays

13 Red-eyed Vireos

12 American Goldfinches

11 Eastern Phoebes

11 Tennessee Warblers

9 Swainson's Thrushes

9 Magnolia Warblers

8 Ospreys

8 Scarlet Tanagers

8 Black-throated Blue Warblers

6 Sharp-shinned Hawks 

6 Chipping Sparrows

6 Savannah Sparrows

5 Black-and-white Warblers

5 Rusty Blackbirds

4 Nashville Warblers

4 Yellow Warblers

4 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks

3 Eastern Wood-Pewees

3 unidentified flycatchers

3 Blue-headeed Vireos

3 unidentified vireos

3 White-breasted Nuthatches (* tied 3rd highest*)

3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets

3 Bay-breasted Warblers

3 Chestnut-sided Warblers

2 Semipalmated Sandpipers

2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers

2 Philadelphia Vireo

2 Golden-crowned Kinglets

2 Wilson's Warblers

2 Palm Warblers

1 Cooper's Hawk

1 Red-bellied Woodpecker

1 Hairy Woodpecker

1 unidentified catharus

1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

1 American Pipit

1 Ovenbird

1 Indigo Bunting

1 Baltimore Oriole

1 Pine Siskin (First of season)

x Common Yellowthroats

4+ hunting Merlins

T= 3802 (7th Highest All-time Tally)

*1 High due to height of flight, waves of birds, and inability to see through all of the flickers.

*2 Also seems very early for such a large number - drought and/or mountain-ash failure?

*3 Unusual numbers of DEJU for this early in the season for second flight in a row.

*4  Incredible irruption continues.

*5  Here come the finches!

-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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