Canada Warbler AND Cerulean Warbler at Palm Point

We recorded 131 species on Saturday’s fall migration count. The complete list is at the end of this email, but I can tell you that our 67 birders (in 26 parties) found 25 species of warblers, including a late Louisiana Waterthrush, two Golden-wingeds, a Cerulean, and, even rarer in fall than Cerulean, a Cape May. Also 2 Roseate Spoonbills, a Whooping Crane, 3 Whip-poor-wills, a Peregrine Falcon, an Alder Flycatcher, 3 Bank Swallows, and a singing (in mid-September!) Bachman’s Sparrow. Shorebirds were few, gulls and terns absent altogether, and big misses or surprising low counts included 2 Eurasian Collared-Doves, no White-winged Doves, only 4 Loggerhead Shrikes, no Brown-headed Nuthatches, 1 European Starling, and no Brown-headed Cowbirds.

While Mike Manetz and I were compiling the migration-count results at his house on Monday, Mike got a call from Matt O’Sullivan, who was at Palm Point watching a Canada Warbler and a Cerulean Warbler chase each other around. Mike went over to Palm Point that afternoon and saw the Cerulean but failed to find the Canada. He went back this morning, however (Tuesday the 20th), and saw both: “15 warbler species in all. Cerulean was in the large oak by the split in the trail. Canada was out by the road, but flew back into the park.”

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Angela Luzader recently posted a video of a Snowy Egret engaged in a feeding behavior I’ve never seen before, apparently mimicking the splashing of an insect that’s fallen into the water: https://www.flickr.com/photos/birds-by-angie/29605146765

On Wednesday, September 21st, Chris Farrell of Audubon Florida will give a presentation on “Climate Change: Implications for North Florida.” Mr. Farrell will give an update on climate-change research and the potential threats to North Florida. He will discuss possible climate scenarios for our region and their potential effects on biodiversity.

And here are the migration-count results:

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 44
Wood Duck 8
Mottled Duck 53
Mallard/Mottled Duck hybrid 2
Blue-winged Teal 434
Northern Bobwhite 4
Wild Turkey 4
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Wood Stork 8
Double-crested Cormorant 21
Anhinga 50
American Bittern 2
Least Bittern 2
Great Blue Heron 43
Great Egret 59
Snowy Egret 30
Little Blue Heron 95
Tricolored Heron 11
Cattle Egret 316
Green Heron 11
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3
White Ibis 152
Glossy Ibis 16
Roseate Spoonbill 2
Black Vulture 173
Turkey Vulture 264
Osprey 8
Bald Eagle 17
Northern Harrier 4
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 92
Red-tailed Hawk 10
King Rail 8
Sora 1
Purple Gallinule 3
Common Gallinule 185
American Coot 31
Limpkin 16
Sandhill Crane 23
Whooping Crane 1
Killdeer 4
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 25
Rock Pigeon 185
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Mourning Dove 97
Common Ground-Dove 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 12
Eastern Screech-Owl 6
Great Horned Owl 11
Barred Owl 10
Common Nighthawk 2
Whip-poor-will 3
Chimney Swift 39
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 11
Belted Kingfisher 16
Red-headed Woodpecker 52
Red-bellied Woodpecker 279
Downy Woodpecker 187
Northern Flicker 9
Pileated Woodpecker 104
American Kestrel 6
Peregrine Falcon 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 7
Acadian Flycatcher 60
Alder Flycatcher 1
Empidonax, sp. 13
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 9
Loggerhead Shrike 4
White-eyed Vireo 714
Yellow-throated Vireo 12
Red-eyed Vireo 364
Blue Jay 296
American Crow 360
Fish Crow 40
crow, sp. 16
Purple Martin 2
Bank Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 42
Carolina Chickadee 258
Tufted Titmouse 450
Carolina Wren 499
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 441
Eastern Bluebird 48
Veery 97
Swainson’s Thrush 8
Catharus, sp. 1
Wood Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 1
Brown Thrasher 21
Northern Mockingbird 83
European Starling 6
Ovenbird 131
Worm-eating Warbler 7
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Northern Waterthrush 61
Golden-winged Warbler 2
Blue-winged Warbler 8
Black-and-white Warbler 20
Prothonotary Warbler 8
Tennessee Warbler 1
Kentucky Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 91
Hooded Warbler 23
American Redstart 47
Cape May Warbler 1
Cerulean Warbler 1
Northern Parula 202
Magnolia Warbler 3
Blackburnian Warbler 3
Yellow Warbler 52
Chestnut-sided Warbler 11
Black-throated Blue Warbler 5
Palm Warbler 4
Pine Warbler 42
Yellow-throated Warbler 84
Prairie Warbler 51
Eastern Towhee 48
Bachman’s Sparrow 1
Summer Tanager 55
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 680
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 4
Bobolink 10
Red-winged Blackbird 649
Eastern Meadowlark 7
Boat-tailed Grackle 210
Common Grackle 328
Baltimore Oriole 23
House Finch 42
House Sparrow 21