Hi all,
Another excellent flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this am. High clouds to start, a very strong and fast start to the flight, and lots of chaos (hunting Merlins, waves at all levels, vocal chickadees trying to build up the courage to cross, etc) combined to greatly reduce my percentage of identified birds today.
6:27-9:55am
59F, mostly cloudy to mostly clear, W 7.9-12.5 to 8.4-11.3.
1260 unidentified (ouch!)
326 Northern Parulas
206 Northern Flickers
187 Yellow-rumped Warblers
170 American Robins
149 Blackpoll Warblers
66 Blue Jays (3rd highest tally)
42 Black-throated Green Warblers
39 Black-throated Blue Warblers (*2nd highest tally)
38 Dark-eyed Juncos
34 Cedar Waxwings
32 Black-capped Chickadees (*1)
27 American Redstarts
21 Red-eyed Vireos
21 Purple Finches
20 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
19 Tennessee Warblers
18 Magnolia Warblers
13 Cape May Warblers
12 White-throated Sparrows
12 American Goldfinches
11 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
10 Black-and-white Warblers
10 Nashville Warblers
9 Rusty Blackbirds
6 Eastern Phoebes
5 Palm Warblers (*2)
5 Yellow Warblers
4 Swainson's Thrushes
4 American Pipits
4 Chestnut-sided Warblers
4 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
3 Red-breasted Nuthatches
3 Scarlet Tanagers
2 NORTHERN SHOVELERS (*3)
2 Tufted Titmice (*4)
2 White-breasted Nuthatches
2 Blue-headed Vireos
2 Pine Warblers
2 Bay-breasted Warblers
2 Blackburnian Warblers
2 Wilson's Warbler
2 Savannah Sparrows
2 Pine Siskins
1 American Kestrel
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker (a rare crossing)
1 Hairy Woodpecker
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 unidentified flycatcher
1 unidentified Catharus
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Lincoln's Sparrow
1 Indigo Bunting
1 DICKCISSEL (already 5th of the season; a new record season tally)
1 Bobolink
x Common Yellowthroats
T= 2,821
*1 some eventually crossed after innumerable false-starts.
*2 seems disproportionately low. Likely many of these less-distinct-overhead-to-me warblers were part of those waves of unidentified clusters.
*3 northbound, high overhead, so not technically part of the Morning Flight, but my 188th Patch Bird here!
*4 with chickadee flock...attempted crossing twice but may have just been traveling with chickadees.
** 1 probable Connecticut but I saw it below me just too quickly.
-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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