Howdy all,
The last three days have seen a nice push of birds into the area. Of course,
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS have been making up the majority of the birds
however. But we have had a few nice species around. Over the last three days,
we
have banded 3 BLACK-THRAOTED GREEN WARBLERS, a few BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS, 4
BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, 2 PINE WARBLERS (not a species we catch many of here), and
a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. We have also been seeing a jump in "winter" birds as
well, like HERMIT THRUSHES, both KINGLETS, and the SPARROWS.
If the weather would have been better Saturday morning (it was raining here
early in the morning), we would have banded 500+ but we got a late start and
missed out. And then Sunday, it was very windy here so we were lucky to catch
what we caught. Today (Monday) was a nice day and we did well again.
I have a feeling we will be catching a lot of birds over the next week as
long as the Yellow-rump numbers stay high and the weather is good to us.
Also, there have been a lot of PINE SISKINS here too.
And from the hawk watch, another ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was seen today, as it
slowly did circles just over the platform. Killer looks!
Totals for the last three days:
10/18:
American Redstart 4
Black-thr. Blue Warbler 9
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 3
Palm Warbler 5 4 yellows, 1 western
Magnolia Warbler 1
Northern Parula 1
Black-thr. Green Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 270
Common Yellowthroat 2
Pine Warbler 2
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 one of our best warbler
days as far as species goes for the season
Song Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 8
White-throated Sparrow 4
Eastern Towhee 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 17
Brown Creeper 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Hermit Thrush 11
Gray-cheecked Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 26
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1
TOTAL---------------------------------- 383
10/19:
Black-thr. Green Warbler 1
Black-thr. Blue Warbler 5
Black-and-white Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 146
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Brown Creeper 2
Swamp Sparrow 1
Hermit Thrush 9
Gray Catbird 3
TOTAL---------------------------------- 173 very windy, so a
good total for the day
10/20:
Common Yellowthroat 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 262 that was it for warblers
Swamp Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 4
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Brown Creeper 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Indigo Bunting 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Hermit Thrush 15
Swainson's Thrush 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Gray Catbird 8
TOTAL------------------------------------ 317
Sorry this was so long. I was a slack and actually took the day off Sunday,
and was a bum. Now, its time to play catch up!
Birds are on the move and my sparrows are coming in! Got to love this time
of year!!
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory
_www.cvwo.org_ (http://www.cvwo.org)
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