Over the weekend the wind shifted briefly to the southwest then west then northwest for about 10 minutes before swinging back east. That was enough to dump a lot of migrants all over south Florida since the birds do seem to be bottlenecked to the north of us and are wanting to continue their migration.
We have some September species (Worm-eating warbler, Red-eyed vireo, etc.) mixed in with October migrants (White-eyed vireo, Gray catbird, buntings, etc.) so our days were quite diverse. Common yellowthroats continued to be common, and the Gray catbirds arrived. Magnolia warblers and White-eyed vireos were well-represented in this wave.
Below are a Yellow-throated vireo, a sharp-looking bird. The brown bird is a Blue grosbeak, only the third one we have banded at Cape Florida since 2002!
Totals:
Oct 13: 133 birds of 23 species
Oct 14: 88 birds of 19 species
- Common yellowthroat: 45/11
- American redstart: 27/7
- Black-throated blue warbler: 22/2
- Gray catbird: 5/17
- White-eyed vireo: 0/13
- Ovenbird: 6/4
- Northern parula: 4/5
- Black & white warbler: 3/6
- Magnolia warbler: 4/4
- Painted bunting: 1/6
- Red-eyed vireo: 2/2
- Scarlet tanager: 1/2
- Indigo bunting: 0/3
- Northern waterthrush: 2/0
- Swainson’s thrush: 1/1
- Worm-eating warbler: 1/1
- Gray-cheeked thrush: 0/2
- Acadian flycatcher:1/0
- Traill’s flycatcher: 1/0
- Great crested flycatcher: 1/0
- Yellow-throated vireo: 1/0
- Wood thrush: 1/0
- Golden-winged warbler: 1/0
- Tennessee warbler: 1/0
- Western palm warbler: 1/0
- Swainson’s warbler: 1/0
- Red-bellied woodpecker: 0/1
- Veery: 0/1
- Summer tanager: 0/1
