Higbee's Beach WMA, Group 1 - Friday, October 21st 2011

A nice Higbee walk - a quiet start with birds whizzing around high overhead, but gradually things settled and we had great looks at Yellow-rumped and - especially - Blackpoll Warblers which seemed to be everywhere! Also a nice run of late Chimney Swifts, then two Nashville Warblers feeding together in field 2.
35 species

Double-crested Cormorant 1
Bald Eagle 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Herring Gull (American) 1
Mourning Dove 4
Chimney Swift 9
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 15
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 25
Tree Swallow 35
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 20
Gray Catbird 2
Brown Thrasher 4
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 3
Nashville Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Northern Parula 4
Blackpoll Warbler 35
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 100
Eastern Towhee 2
White-throated Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 8
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Eastern Meadowlark 4
American Goldfinch 1

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