Hi Folks!

This morning was one of those rare, rare, rare days at Bayside on Assateague 
Island.   The group, including Mark Hoffman, John Hubbell, Jim Brighton,  John 
Combs, Sam Dyke & a Tricounty Bird Club field trip, were treated to the 
spectacle of migration.  I had camped on the island and had a small and irregular 
flight of thrushes during the night.  At dawn things seemed quiet and stayed 
that way until about 6:45 .... then the flow began.   The following list was 
compiled with most of the observers standing in one spot!  

Location:     ASSATEAGUE ISLAND NS--BAYSIDE
Observation date:     9/29/07
Notes:     Fallout on island after cold front. Most birds crossing bay, 
heading SW to mainland. Excellent light. Wind NW 10-15 steady. All Palm Warblers = 
Western.
Number of species:     64

Canada Goose     6
Wood Duck     6
American Black Duck     7
Common Loon     1
Brown Pelican     11
Double-crested Cormorant     22
Great Cormorant     1  [adult flying up the bay]
Great Egret     1
Snowy Egret     11
Little Blue Heron     4
Tricolored Heron     2
Osprey     3
Cooper's Hawk     1
Lesser Yellowlegs     11
Least Sandpiper     1
Laughing Gull     70
Herring Gull     3
Caspian Tern     9
Forster's Tern     1
Royal Tern     28
Mourning Dove     3
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1  [rare at this location]
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     1
Downy Woodpecker     1  [uncommon at this location]
Northern Flicker     222  <--------------------------------------
Eastern Phoebe     6
Red-eyed Vireo     1
Tree Swallow     47
Red-breasted Nuthatch     24  [probably many more]
Carolina Wren     4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     8
Swainson's Thrush     1
Gray Catbird     6
Northern Mockingbird     2
Brown Thrasher     2
European Starling     23
Cedar Waxwing     110
Northern Parula     9
Chestnut-sided Warbler     1
Magnolia Warbler     3
Cape May Warbler     156   <---------------------------------
Black-throated Blue Warbler     41  <---------------------
Yellow-rumped Warbler     13
Black-throated Green Warbler     19
Blackburnian Warbler     1
Prairie Warbler     3
Palm Warbler     14
Bay-breasted Warbler     1
Blackpoll Warbler     9
Black-and-white Warbler     9
American Redstart     5
Canada Warbler     1
warbler sp.     140  [most of the warblers listed above were flying W and 
jumping from                    Bayside to South Point on the pther side of the 
bay]
Scarlet Tanager     4
Eastern Towhee     1
White-throated Sparrow     2
Dark-eyed Junco     2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     1
Dickcissel     3
Bobolink     7
Red-winged Blackbird     6
Brown-headed Cowbird     2
Purple Finch     1
American Goldfinch     2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Good Birding!

Jim

Jim Stasz
North Beach  MD







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