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Posted by Alex Harper on 18:00:02 04/05/09
Birders in Ft. Morgan, Alabama are boasting record numbers of banded birds. Migration is just picking up, but my area is receiving large amounts of birds. I managed to bird Pensacola on Friday and today (Sunday). Most of the breeders are back and singing on territory, including Eastern Wood-Pewee, many Red-eyed, White-eyed, and Yellow-throated Vireos, Prothonotary and Hooded Warblers, Orchard Orioles, and Summer Tanagers.
Closer to the coast on Pensacola Beach and Gulf Breeze (on Santa Rosa Island), I had the following:
Bufflehead
calling Common Loons
Northern Gannets
Western Sandpipers
Short-billed Dowitcher
Bonaparte's Gull
Red-headed Woodpecker
Ruby-throated Humingbird
Eastern Kingbirds
Barn Swallows
Red-eyed and White-eyed Vireos
Northern Parula
Orange-crowned Warbler
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Summer Tanager
Blue Groseak
Indigo Bunting
Orchard Oriole
A good assortment, but I did not have the variety that was around yesterday. I was too late to relocate a Baird's Sandpiper that was seen this morning, but finding the Swainson's compensated.
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