Hi all.
It was another slow day on The Islands today, even slower than Tuesday. I guess we are in a temporary migration slow down until the winds and temperatures change. There were a few nice birds down there though and following is a list of some of them.
Wood Ducks, Canvasback, 3 Great Egrets, Black-crowned night-Herons, American Bittern, Caspian and Common Terns, Belted Kingfishers, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hairy Woodpecker, Blue-headed Vireo, Hermit Thrushes, Brown Thrashers, Carolina and Winter Wrens, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Purple Martins, Nashville, Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers, and Chipping and Field Sparrows and a Fox Sparrow was reported to me.
Another good bird was only a 100 yards or so from my apartment at 5 am as I crossed a Plaza parking lot. As I approached the bus stop a Woodcock flushed off the pavement. There isn't any woods, etc. within a 1/2 mile so I believe it was a migrant bird that just got tired and landed in the parking lot. A nice start to a nice day.
