Good evening
This morning I joined Jan McDonald for another beautiful day on The Islands and today was a good choice of days as we experienced a medium fall out of birds on Wards Island and to a smaller extent on Hanlans Point.
Almost as soon as we left the ferry we ran into a small flock of 6 Brown Creepers and it was up hill from there and following are some of the highlights ( most are undercounted ) but still no Waterfowl to speak of nor any Shorebirds and only 2 Raptor species.
Sharp-shinned Hawks, R-T Hummingbird, Belted Kingfishers, 54 Y-B Sapsuckers, 51 N. Flickers, E. Wood-Pewees, Yellow-bellied, Willow and Least Flycatchers, 21 E. Phoebes, Red-breasted Nuthatches, 11 Brown Creepers, 3 Carolina Wrens, House Wren, 18 Winter Wrens, 150+ Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 35+ Golden-crowned Kinglets, Swainson's Thrushes, Brown Thrashers, 10 Blue-headed Vireos, 5 Philadelphia Vireos, 17 Red-eyed Vireos, 18 Warbler species with 2 Orange-crowned Warblers together on Hanlans Point, 50+ Nashville Warblers, 20+ Magnolia Warblers, 50+ Yellow-rumped Warblers, Palm Warblers, Pine Warbler, Ovenbirds, N. Waterthrushes, Wilson's Warbler, Bay-breasted and Blackpoll Warblers. 5 Scarlet Tanagers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Chipping and Lincoln's Sparrows, 35+ White-throated Sparrows and 3 Dark-eyed Juncos.
The arrival of the Sparrows and Juncos are just the tip of the many that will pass through the Islands over the next few weeks.
