[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 9/24 (WESTERN KINGBIRD; GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH)

Hi all,
A moderate flight passed over and trough Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this am. Lingering cloud cover reduced the morning flight considerably, as is always the case here.

6:31 to 9:05am
46F, Mostly cloudy, lt W.

211 Unidentified
96 Northern Parulas
59 Yellow-rumped Warblers
45 Black-throated Green Warblers
53 Cedar Waxwings
39 Northern Flickers
22 American Redstarts
21 Blackpoll Warblers
19 Palm Warblers
14 American Robins
9 Eastern Phoebes (*unusually low confidence in my count today. Swirling and fighting and feeding birds made accuracy difficult. Perhaps as few as 4, but perhaps as many as 15+).
9 Yellow Warblers
8 Magnolia Warblers
6 American Goldfinches
5 Blue Jays
4 Swainson's Thrushes
4 Black-and-white Warblers
4 White-throated Sparrows
3 Common Loons
3 Red-eyed Vireos
3 Golden-crowned Kinglets
3 Baltimore Orioles
2 Blue-headed Vireos
2 Nashville Warblers
2 Common Yellowthroats
2 Scarlet Tanagers
2 Chipping Sparrows
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Osprey
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1 Least Flycatcher
1 WESTERN KINGBIRD (SP species #177 for me! High flyover, with a Baltimore Oriole nearby. I fired off some photos, but I fear I may have photographed the oriole only by mistake. I'll need to review the photos on the computer tomorrow).
1 Brown Creeper
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH (feeding on Hawthorne and Winterberry at edge of parking lot with a second, unidentified thrush seen only briefly).
1 Unidentifed thrush
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 American Pipit (first of fall)
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Wilson's Warbler
1 CANADA WARBLER (late)
1 Dark-eyed Junco
1 Rusty Blackbird

Total = 666

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