Howdy all,
The 23rd was not that good of a day at the station. We only banded a whopping
2 birds, and saw little around the station. At around 11:30, we had a flock
of roughly 40 WHITE IBIS fly over the station heading north. That pretty much
was the highlight of the day.
Today was a much different story. There was a good push of migrants into the
area last night. The most unexpected birds of the day were a pair of CATTLE
EGRETS that flew over the station a little after 7am. Other new birds to the
area include YELLOW WARBLER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, RED-EYED VIREO, ROYAL TERN,
and
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH. Some of the bigger pulses of species to the area
included GRAY CATBIRD, WHITE-EYED VIREO, SWAMP SPARROW, SNOWY EGRET (10+) and
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.
A few more BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS were around today and Shannon reported
5 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS, including her second female sighting of the season.
The MYRTLE WARBLERS are REALLY looking spiffy!!!
The totals for the 23rd looked like this:
Downy Woodpecker 1
Common Grackle 1
TOTAL --------------------- 2 pretty sad
The totals for the 24th:
White-eyed Vireo 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Northern Waterthrush 3 first of the season
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 first of the season
Swamp Sparrow 3
Gray Catbird 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird -- released unbanded (we don't band them). 2nd of
season
TOTAL--------------------------- 16
It's nice to finally see some migrants here! Bring them on!
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
Head banded
Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory
