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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Morning Flight Saturday August 29 2009
posted by Cameron Cox | 10:34 AM
The word for the day is "precipitation"! I'll be using a kayak to reach the dike for the next week or two. Unsurprisingly there was no morning flight. There was, however, an excellent Prothontary Warbler kicking around for most of the morning. Since Prothontary was my "spark" bird I always enjoy them. I believe an a case can be made that for many birders the first bird on their life list is more important than the 600 0r 700 milestone that we celebrate.

None of the birds seen today were participating in morning flight.


Location: Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA--Dike
Observation date: 8/29/09
Number of species: 49

Mallard 6
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 1
Osprey 1
Semipalmated Plover 4
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
Least Sandpiper 12
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
American Woodcock 1
Laughing Gull 65
Herring Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 6
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Kingbird 90
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 6
Purple Martin 35
Tree Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 55
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 7
House Wren 1
American Robin 4
Cedar Waxwing 8
Yellow Warbler 6
Black-and-white Warbler 3
American Redstart 5
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Northern Waterthrush 4
Common Yellowthroat 2
Northern Cardinal 8
Blue Grosbeak 1
Bobolink 20
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 2
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 2

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