Posted by Brennan Mulrooney on September 29, 2003 at 21:57:39:
That's what I'd been thinking ever since I saw the radar picture at 9 last night. By the time we'd finished banding today (with a season high for species and total number) I was dying to get to Key West, and I wasn't disappointed. Here's what Brynne Langan, Mark Hedden and I saw this afternoon:
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO (prob) seen only briefly by Brynne, she said it looked dark billed and showed little or no rufous in the wings as it flew off.
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD 1
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE 5-10
BARN SWALLOW many
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER 5-10
VEERY 3
SWAINSON'S THRUSH 10+
YELLOW-THROATED VIREO 1
RED-EYED VIREO 10+
TENNESSEE WARBLER 10+
NORTHERN PARULA 5-10
YELLOW WARBLER 1
CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER 3
MAGNOLIA WARBLER 5
CAPE MAY WARBLER 1
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER 10+
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER 1
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER 5
PRAIRIE WARBLER 10+
WESTERN PALM WARBLER 10+
BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER 3
AMERICAN REDSTART 10+
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER 1
WORM-EATING WARBLER 2
SWAINSON'S WARBLER 1
OVENBIRD 10+
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH 5-10
KENTUCKY WARBLER 1
COMMON YELLOWTHROAT 10+
HOODED WARBLER 2
SUMMER TANAGER 5
SCARLET TANAGER 8
BLUE GROSBEAK 2
INDIGO BUNTING 1
This was all in about four hours of birding (3 'til dusk) at Little Hamaka Park, Indigenous Park, Old Harris School, and Fort Zachary Taylor. I'll be back in the morning, and I hope they will be too (especially that darn cuckoo).
Brennan Mulrooney
Cudjoe Key, FL
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