Right as we got out of our car at Montrose Point, we saw tons of birds! Lucas R. and I, who got there 15 minutes early, scanned the entrance to the hedge finding our first migrants and Yellow-billed Cuckoo. At 7, we met up with the rest of the group – to me, it seemed as soon as they arrived, the birds left:( So we headed over to the beach and dunes finding a nice Least Sandpiper but not much else. We headed back to the hedge and we found it to be much better! We went in circles around the hedge many times over a couple hours finding 21 species of warblers including Mourning, Black-throated Blue, lots of Canada Warblers, and a Yellow-breasted Chat and many other migrants! After that, we went back again to the dunes and beach finding some Savannah Sparrows, an immature Prothonotary Warbler, and an Alder/Willow Flycatcher.
List below:
| Canada Goose |
| Mallard |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Killdeer |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Caspian Tern |
| Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) |
| Mourning Dove |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
| Black-billed Cuckoo |
| Chimney Swift |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
| Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s Flycatcher) |
| Least Flycatcher |
| Great Crested Flycatcher |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Philadelphia Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Red-eyed Vireo |
| Blue Jay |
| American Crow |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Purple Martin |
| Tree Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Cliff Swallow |
| Black-capped Chickadee |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| Veery |
| Swainson’s Thrush |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| Northern Waterthrush |
| Black-and-white Warbler |
| Prothonotary Warbler |
| Tennessee Warbler |
| Mourning Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| American Redstart |
| Northern Parula |
| Magnolia Warbler |
| Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Blackburnian Warbler |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Blackpoll Warbler |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Palm Warbler |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Canada Warbler |
| Wilson’s Warbler |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Lincoln’s Sparrow |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Indigo Bunting |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Grackle |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| American Goldfinch |
| House Sparrow |
eBird checklist at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37034881