[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight (SUMMER TANAGER, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Dickcissel, Willow Flycatcher), 9/16.

Hi all,

 

An excellent Morning Flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth today, featuring a nice mix of "good birds," and both truant migrants and the vanguard of the late migrant roster. Excellent diversity, but an often-high flight and numerous birds in the sun glare to the northeast - plus the volume of the flight – led to numerous "unidentified."

 

6:23am to 10:05am.

50F, Light NW, clear.

 

513 Unidentified

243 Blackpoll Warblers (3^rd highest total)

138 Northern Parulas

64 Black-throated Green Warblers

58 Cedar Waxwings

42 Red-breasted Nuthatches (2^nd highest total)

32 American Redstarts

27 American Goldfinches

22 Yellow-rumped Warblers

16 Black-and-white Warblers

13 Tree Swallows

13 Dark-eyed Juncos

12 Palm Warblers

11 Purple Finches

10 Black-capped Chickadees (not including birds that did not cross)

10 American Robins

6 Yellow Warblers (good total for the late date)

5 Magnolia Warblers

5 Dark-eyed Juncos

4 Ospreys

4 Northern Flickers

4 Ruby-crowned Kinglets

4 Tennessee Warblers

4 Scarlet Tanagers

4 Chipping Sparrows

3 Eastern Phoebes

3 Eastern Wood-Pewees

3 Least Flycatchers

3 Blue-headed Vireos

3 Golden-crowned Kinglets

3 Chestnut-sided Warblers

2 Common Loons

2 Sharp-shinned Hawks

2 Nashville Warblers (plus one found dead in the parking lot by Skip Small).

2 Black-throated Blue Warblers

1 DOWNY WOODPECKER (only about 1 a year seen crossing; 4 "false-starts").

1 WILLOW FLYCATCHER (first record of a non-"Traill's" Flycatcher. After singing once at sunrise, it called repeatedly before crossing)

1 Barn Swallow

1 Philadelphia Vireo

1 unidentified vireo

1 NORTHERN MOCKINBIRD  (3^rd crossing record)

1 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER (my 2^nd record at Sandy Point).

1 American Pipit

1 Bay-breasted Warbler

1 Northern Waterthrush

1 SUMMER TANAGER (imm/female seen very well as it flew overhead by me and Ken Klapper at the bridge.  Big, pale bill was absolutely screaming in the early morning light.  Medium-size yellow bird with yellow-greenish wings and back only a couple of shades darker than the undersides.  A nice contrast with the SCTA's observed earlier).

1 DICKCISSEL

1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

 

Total = 1303

 

-Derek

 

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