Migration at the Point - Tuesday, October 30, 2018


Amazing migration spectacle .... goldfinches, purple finches, pine siskins, red-winged blackbirds and robins in huge numbers. Great sharp-shinned hawk flight. And a clay-colored sparrow to top it off!

Leaders: Brett Ewald, Mary Watkins, Steve Weis, Rebecca Perruci 
70 species

Canada Goose  25
Mute Swan  4
Northern Shoveler  4
Gadwall  18
American Wigeon  10
Mallard  14
Northern Pintail  5
Green-winged Teal  6
Ring-necked Duck  4
Surf Scoter  8
Black Scoter  15
Ruddy Duck  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  8
Mourning Dove  22
American Coot  1
Killdeer  1
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  8
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  11
Royal Tern  1
Northern Gannet  3
Double-crested Cormorant  36
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  9
Northern Harrier  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk  32
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  3
American Kestrel  3
Merlin  2
Eastern Phoebe  6
Blue Jay  7
American Crow  5
Tree Swallow  300
Carolina Chickadee  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  3
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  5
Eastern Bluebird  12
American Robin  150
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  42
House Finch  6
Purple Finch  60
Pine Siskin  50
American Goldfinch  250
Chipping Sparrow  1
Clay-colored Sparrow  1
Field Sparrow  3
Dark-eyed Junco  1
White-crowned Sparrow  4
White-throated Sparrow  42
Savannah Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Meadowlark  4
Red-winged Blackbird  350
Brown-headed Cowbird  50
Common Grackle  18
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler  75
Northern Cardinal  2
House Sparrow  7

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