As it turned out, yesterday's count of nearly 3300 Cedar Waxwings turned out to be merely a precursor for today's action. Starting at sunrise this morning, Anna Peterson, Paul Dolan-Linne, Josh Bednar, and I did our best to stay afloat, at times barely able to keep up with the deluge. We counted for four hours from the roof of a Lakeside apartment building, with birds still flying past even as we packed up our stuff. The hour-by-hour breakdown, beginning at sunrise (6:22 AM - 7:22 AM and so on), is as follows: 4386, 3674, 2090, and 1511. The final sum of 11,661 more than tripled the previous state high count (the aforementioned 3,882 on 17 Sep 1985 at Lakewood Pumping Station)! The day also featured a nice Eastern Kingbird flight, the best day of Blue Jays to-date, and a smattering of odds-and-ends. Only those identified flyovers, presumably migrating, are listed below:
Observation date: 8/29/10 Number of species: 38 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 2 Common Nighthawk 17 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Northern Flicker 4 Eastern Kingbird 60 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 966 Purple Martin 1 Tree Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 5 Cliff Swallow 12 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 American Robin 36 European Starling 1 Cedar Waxwing 11661 Cape May Warbler 1 Bobolink 8 Red-winged Blackbird 45 Common Grackle 102 Baltimore Oriole 2 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 90 Total = 13,196 (including unidentifieds) This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Good Birding, Cameron Rutt Duluth, St. Louis County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
