My wife Lynda and I were joined yesterday by friends and fellow birders, Jerry
and Jane Thornhill for some birding at our house here on Compton Mt. In spite
of the cool, cloudy, windy weather we managed to count 48 species. An early FOS
Purple Finch was a surprise. We have only two other dates for that species in
the county during the month of September. We had 10 warbler species -
Tennessee, Nashville, Magnolia, Cape May (5 of them), Yellow-rumped, Palm,
Bay-breasted, Black-and-white, American Redstart, and Ovenbird. Some of the
other highlights of the day were 3 Cooper's Hawks and two Sharp-shinneds,
Gray-cheeked, Swainson's and Wood Thrushes and one immature male Rose-breasted
Grosbeak. Below is the day's list.
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
Buchanan County
Turkey Vulture 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Wild Turkey 2
Mourning Dove 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 3 (1m, 2f)
Hairy Woodpecker 1f
Northern Flicker 4
Eastern Wood Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Empidonax 1 sp?
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 3
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 (1m, 1f)
Carolina Wren 5
Eastern Bluebird 5
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 4
Wood Thrush 4
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 5
Brown Thrasher 6
European Starling 60
Cedar Waxwing 41
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 3
Cape May Warbler 5 (1 ad m, 4f)
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1f
American Redstart 1f
Ovenbird 2
Scarlet Tanager 3
Eastern Towhee 5 (3m, 2f)
Chipping Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 6 (5m, 1f)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 imm m
Indigo Bunting 1f
Purple Finch 1f (FOS)
American Goldfinch 2 (1m, 1f)
House Finch 1m
