Like many of you, we also had a very slow Saturday with nothing but local or
regional breeders for a total of only 23 species. The only bird at all
exciting was our first-of-fall White-throated Sparrow which was the second
earliest
record there (of 420 eBird records since fall 1979). One possible passage
migrant was a silent empid, which I don't even try to ID in the fall.
Things brightened up (literally and figuratively) on Sunday with our species
list climbing to 40--though still far from what it can be this time of year.
Although the tally did include a few warbler species, the only unequivocal
long-distance, passage migrant was a Cape May (first year female). The full
list
follows.
Dave Davis
Arlington
Location: Davis-Mills Farm
Observation date: 9/24/06
Notes: Site count also conducted this date.
Coverage included Lost Brook loop.
70-78F/light p.m. showers/overcast-partly cloudy/light-strong wind.
Also unid.Accipiter.
Number of species: 40
Ruffed Grouse 1
Black Vulture 17
Turkey Vulture 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 1
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 4
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 5
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Wood Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Indigo Bunting 1
American Goldfinch 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://www.ebird.org)
