[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight (CONNECTICUT WARBLER and Dickcissel), 9/6.

Hi all,

 

Despite a very strong nocturnal migration, only a moderately-strong Morning Flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning.  Calm winds overnight, and a slightly north puff by dawn, combined to reduce the number of birds undergoing a westward re-determined migration (to oversimplify things a bit).  However, this included a very cooperative Dickcissel…oh yeah, and a Connecticut Warbler!

 

6:07-8:40am.

61 F, Mostly cloudy, calm.

 

133 Unidentified

57 American Redstarts

54 Blackpoll Warblers

53 Northern Parulas

24 Tree Swallows

24 Red-breasted Nuthatches (2^nd highest count)

23 Black-throated Green Warblers

5 Magnolia Warblers

5 Purple Finches

2 Eastern Phoebes

2 Red-eyed Vireos

2 American Robins

2 Blackburnian Warblers

2 Black-throated Blue Warblers

1 Sharp-shinned Hawk

1 Northern Flicker

1 Eastern Kingbird

1 Philadelphia Vireo

1 Cedar Waxwing

1 Nashville Warbler

1 Yellow-rumped Warbler

1 CONNECTICUT WARBLER *see below

1 Yellow Warbler

1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1 DICKCISSEL – feeding in goldenrod along edge of roadway, behind the guardrail.  Photo at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.390755794287714.103180.198877036808925&type=1#!/photo.php?fbid=497727916923834&set=a.390755794287714.103180.198877036808925&type=1&theater

 

T=398.

 

Also, 10 Monarch butterflies.

 

*Connecticut Warbler Notes:

At least 1-2 birds a year pass by here that I call "possible" or "probable" COWA.  I think at least a few are passing through Sandy Point each fall.  Today, I saw the bird well enough to confidently make the call.  Spotting the bird as a silhouette, I thought Northern Waterthrush.  As I followed the bird overhead into good light, it was obviously yellow throughout the undersides, including the exceptionally long undertail coverts.  Pale gray hood, but eye/face not seen. Large size compared to a nearby Blackpoll flying at the same height.  Did not call. 

-Derek

 

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