[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 10/11 (1400+; GCTH, WISN).

Hi all,

An excellent flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning.

6:48-9:40.

38F, clear, calm (just a hint of air movement out of the west).

478 American Robins

471 Yellow-rumped Warblers

133 Blackpoll Warblers

83 Unidentified

75 Dark-eyed Juncos

39 Palm Warblers

32 Northern Flickers

21 Cedar Waxwings

17 Rusty Blackbirds

11 Blue-headed Vireos

10 Black-capped Chickadees

10 White-throated Sparrows

8 Eastern Phoebes

8 Ruby-crowned Kinglets

8 Golden-crowned Kinglets

7 Blue Jays

6 Canada Geese

6 Chipping Sparrows

5 American Goldfinches

4 Hermit Thrushes

3 Savannah Sparrows

2 Red-breasted Mergansers (FOF)

2 Red-breasted Nuthatches

2 Red-eyed Vireos

2 Tufted Titmice

2 Common Grackles

1 unidentified goose (with group of 6 Canadas. Possible Cackling).

1 Common Loon

1 WILSON'S SNIPE

1 Merlin (hunting)

1 American Kestrel

1 unidentified vireo

1 White-breasted Nuthatch

1 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH (in viburnums in powerline cut)

1 American Pipit

1 Common Yellowthroat

1 Black-throated Blue Warbler

1 Swamp Sparrow

1 White-crowned Sparrow

1 Pine Siskin (FOF) 

T= 1,460 (6th highest October tally).

-Derek

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

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 Freeport, ME 04032

 207-865-6000

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