9/1/13

Oh September, yadda yadda yadda Sabines Gull.

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2 CANG
9 AMWI
9 NSHO
88 BWTE
2 DCCO
2 SAND
1 PAJA (darker int. type first fall bird moving north in the first hour)
5 BOGU
1 SAGU (distant juvie moving south in the first hour with a mixed tern flock!)
1 FOTE
50 COTE
36 BLTE (flock of 29 in the 7th hour)

8/31/13

The last day of August!

Mostly cloudy skies with light northerly winds, led to a smattering of migrants.

Rhoda brought donuts!!!

6 AMWI
9 GWTE
18 BWTE
2 DCCO
1 GBHE
1 RUTU (over a week later then the first one last fall)
13 SAND
2 SESA
1 PAJA (int. 1st year type, cut in front of the jaeger sp.)
1 Jaeger sp. (rather distant, but looked decent for a 1st year int. LTJA. Not that it matters as in Michigan you can't identify a LTJA that's more then 400m away-Actions of the MBRC 2010, a rejected adult LTJA at WPBO)
3 BOGU
2 CATE
9 FOTE
125 COTE
3 BLTE

8/30/13

Today was sunny with south winds, and no fog!

5 NSHO
1 GWTE
4 BWTE
8 DCCO
1 GBHE
1 KILL
4 AMAV (4 showed up in the 4th hour, and ended up being flushed a mile or so up the beach by dog walkers...)
1 SEPL
1 SAND
1 SESA
1 BASA
3 BOGU
1 FOTE
245 COTE (including a flock of 72)

8/29/13

After yesterdays fog filled funfest  I was excited to start today off with more fog!

For six straight hours visibility was under 400m, with three hours having visibility under 200m!

There was a brief 15-20min in the 4th hour when the fog lifted slightly and visibility hit 1k, but then it was fogfogfogfogfog til the 7th hour.

YUM!














thats the sun.

Fogbow!

 Birds?

3 GWTE

13 DCCO (one was leucistic, the first I've ever seen in a DCCO) 

3 SAND

1 LESA

1 SESA

1 BBSA (spent the last two hours of the count dodging beach walkers)
1 PAJA (a rather grayish first fall type that gave a great look as it flew by the pier less then 70 yds out, close enough that one of the fisherman asked what it was! Sadly though, even with pics it likely won't make it into the official county records)
7 BOGU
3 FOTE
27 COTE

8/28/13

 Today featured 6 hours of a fog hampered count, four of those six were spent in fog so thick you couldn't see the lighthouse from the lighthouse.

Did I mention what was either a light rain or a heavy mist that fell most of the day?

Anyways, what do you do when your fogged in on the pier?

Maybe this!

Or if your a Waterbird counter (and single), you search the lighthouses for Bats.

This Silver-haired Bat was re-adjusting its roosting position.



















Birds?

Matt brought pizza to the count today, it was better then the birding.

 3 BWTE
35 DCCO (saved the day in the last hour with one flock of 34)
1 BBPL (whistled it in in the fog, bit never did see it)
1 SESA
3 BOGU
1 CATE
3 COTE

1 PEFA and 1 ad. BAEA somehow found the lake in the fog.

827/13

Let the slow days continue....wooo.

Cloudy skies, light S winds, and temps that reached 27 truly made this a eh day.

4 MALL
3 NSHO
1 GWTE
7 BWTE
3 DCCO
2 SAND
1 SESA
9 BOGU
2 CATE
64 COTE ( three groups totaling 62 came by in the last hour which almost saved the day)

No SAGU were seen at Tiscornia today though, so the day was not saved.

8/26/13

ugh. No birds, lovely crappy nice weather.

8 MALL
2 GWTE
32 BWTE
1 DCCO
2 GBHE
5 SAND
8 BOGU
1 CATE
6 COTE
12 BLTE (maybe theres still a few left on the lake?)

A juvie PEFA made a pass at the gulls in the first hour, other then that non-waterbirds were quite.