Re: [Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 10/20

I reached the Wells Reserve parking lot at 7:30 this morning and immediately knew I'd be staying there for a while. Over a half hour, I count-estimated 300 yellow-rumps and 250 robins and picked out some purple finches, a flicker, and some sort of blackbird. Scores of other birds were too far away to identify. (Actually, many were close enough to identify if I had Derek's skill and experience. But I don't.)

Seeking an orange-crowned nemesis, I took a short trail walk and found a bunch of sparrows (mostly white-throat, song, junco, but swamp and savannah, too) and a scattering of other species. The overhead flocks dissipated as soon as I left the parking lot, but now and then a few migrants passed by.

I got home to Berwick with enough sunshine at the end of the day and discovered a nice mix of birds featuring a very obliging northern parula and a hidden brown thrasher.

Scott Richardson

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:35 AM, 'Derek Lovitch' via Maine birds <maine-birds@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi all,

A great flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning. An early shift to SW winds cut off the flight earlier than I would have hoped.

7:02 - 9:00am, 38F, partly to mostly cloudy, WNW 6.5 to SW 6.3mph

461 Yellow-rumped Warblers
159 American Robins
126 Dark-eyed Juncos (124 crossed)
95 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
68 Unidentified
54 White-throated Sparrows (4 crossed with Dark-eyed Juncos)
13 Golden-crowned Kinglets
12 Chipping Sparrows (6 crossed)
12 finch sp.
10 Northern Flickers
10 Common Grackles
9 kinglet sp.
9 Hermit Thrushes (1 crossed)
7 Canada Geese
7 Eastern Phoebes
7 Purple Finches
5 Red-breasted Mergansers
4 Rusty Blackbirds
4 American Goldfinches
3 Red-breasted Nuthatches
3 Brown Creepers
3 Palm Warblers
3 White-crowned Sparrows (1 crossed, first recorded crossing)
3 House Finches (rare crossing)
2 Northern Harriers
2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
2 Common Ravens
2 Blue-headed Vireos
2 Swamp Sparrows (none crossed)
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
1 Cedar Waxwing
1 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 MAGNOLIA WARBLER
1 NASHVILLE WARBLER
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Savannah Sparrow
1 blackbird sp.
X Song Sparrows

Total = 1107

-Derek

Sent from my iPhone

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