Lots of birds correcting back to the mainland from Cousins Island this morning after the W then NW winds overnight. I focused mostly on birds in the trees by the bridge and occasionally looked up to see droves of birds flying overhead (estimating 500+ unidentified warbler types). In small trees, there would be 10+ in waves that I could see (meaning there were probably twice that many) only a few feet away from where I stood. John Lawrence joined me for a while, and Stella viewed the birds from the parking lot.
Derek, I don't know how you keep track of all those birds! Missed having you there!
Here are my best estimates:
30 Mallard
25 Common Eider
40 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Blue Heron
4 Snowy Egret
4 Laughing Gull
6 Ring-billed Gull
30 Herring Gull
3 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
4 Northern Flicker
1 Merlin -- Watched it flying over water trying to catch migrants. Hit a few and continued the chase down to the water, but the prey got away, barely. I think it was a redstart.
2 Eastern Phoebe
9 Blue-headed Vireo
17 Red-eyed Vireo
4 Blue Jay
30 American Crow
29 Black-capped Chickadee
4 Tufted Titmouse
18 Red-breasted Nuthatch
8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Swainson's Thrush -- Stella saw
2 American Robin
6 Gray Catbird
5 European Starling
6 Black-and-white Warbler
24 American Redstart
46 Northern Parula -- Many littering the tree by the bridge. Came in waves of 5-10 at a time.
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Blackburnian Warbler
15 Yellow Warbler -- Seen from bridge in trees and bushes, one or two at a time mixed with other warblers.
8 Blackpoll Warbler
6 Black-throated Green Warbler
2 Wilson's Warbler
500 warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) -- My best guess of all small birds flying over toward mainland. Warblers mostly, but probably vireos and kinglets, etc too.
1 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
12 White-throated Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
1 Lincoln's Sparrow
1 Scarlet Tanager
3 American Goldfinch
Number of Taxa: 43
-Becky Marvil
Yarmouth
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