Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments: Looking for migrants at a well-reported site which I had been keeping tabs on via Massbird.
Weather: bright but cloudy, windy (W), chilly.
21 species (+1 other taxa)
Common Eider 20 + on rocks off the end of the neck.
Great Northern Diver 2 over.
Double-crested Cormorant X
Osprey 1 over.
Northern Harrier 1 ringtail quartering the bottom of the neck.
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Mourning Dove X
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 seen from a distance in poor light on the small marsh at the bottom of the neck. It was large-ish with elevated forehead, 2 wingbars, the lateral one heavier.
Tree Swallow 100 at least. A few trickled through then 3 big flocks of 50-100+ came through, apparently heading north-east along the coastline.
1.5 mile(s)
Comments: Looking for migrants at a well-reported site which I had been keeping tabs on via Massbird.
Weather: bright but cloudy, windy (W), chilly.
21 species (+1 other taxa)
Common Eider 20 + on rocks off the end of the neck.
Great Northern Diver 2 over.
Double-crested Cormorant X
Osprey 1 over.
Northern Harrier 1 ringtail quartering the bottom of the neck.
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Mourning Dove X
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 seen from a distance in poor light on the small marsh at the bottom of the neck. It was large-ish with elevated forehead, 2 wingbars, the lateral one heavier.
Tree Swallow 100 at least. A few trickled through then 3 big flocks of 50-100+ came through, apparently heading north-east along the coastline.
HOUSE WREN 1 or 2 scolded me as I returned from the small marsh at the bottom of the neck. A brief view of one revealed it to be buff all over, no eyestripe, & larger than winter wren with a churring alarm call. Life-tick.
Carolina Wren 1 heard in the same area as the house wrens & then seen.
Grey Catbird X
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER 1 male seen just after the house finches. It popped up just behind the finches on a similar shrub & flitted about briefly. It lingered long enough for photos allowing a fairly straightforward id, with long stout bill, dark eye-line, yellow chest, greyish wings with two pale wing-bars. An excellent & unexpected life-tick.
Common Yellowthroat X - several around in the low shrub by the path. It took a while for any to show though with a 'seep' call at first causing me to stop on the path for several minutes before one finally showed. They were very elusive but from the number of calls there were several if not dozens around.
Palm Warbler 1 halfway along the path.
Eastern Towhee 2 males.
Song Sparrow X
Palm Warbler 1 halfway along the path.
Eastern Towhee 2 males.
Song Sparrow X
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW 2 total; the first bird was the second bird of the day in the carpark. Two stripes down its head, yellowish & a light stripe down the middle. Pale pinkish bill, long & slimmer than song sparrow. Easy to identify from field marks & photos. I saw at least another one when I was heading back, so there were at least two around. Life-tick.
sparrow sp. 1 with flecked chest, song flatter than usual song sparrow's; but could have been a variant song rather than something other than song sparrow. Lincoln's?
House Finch 10 on buses in two noisy & active flocks. They flew in from the west, settled briefly then headed off east.
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13371718
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