This weather pattern has really shut things down at Cape Florida, although mainland birders are seeing a constant stream of interesting species. Unfortunately high pressure to the north of us and strong easterly winds over the region are forecast to continue for the foreseeable future. It’s not quite as hot as before in the mornings but we have yet to get a real cold front sweeping through; they seem to fizzle out on the way down and we have had no evenings of NW winds the whole season. Windy high pressure has often taken some of the punch out of late October banding in other seasons; it is a pattern we get stuck in sometimes.
Here are the overall Top 10 species as of today:
- American redstart: 356
- Ovenbird: 271
- Black-throated blue warbler: 259
- Worm-eating warbler: 190
- Black & white warbler: 182
- Common yellowthroat: 122
- Gray catbird: 92
- Northern parula: 92
- Northern waterthrush: 75
- Cape May warbler: 54
| SPECIES | NEW | RETURN | RECAP |
| Gray catbird | 8 | – | 1 |
| American redstart | – | – | 2 |
| Black-throated blue warbler | 4 | – | 2 |
| Northern waterthrush | 1 | – | – |
| Ovenbird | 2 | – | 3 |
| # BIRDS CAPTURED | # SPECIES | # NETS | NET HOURS | CAPTURE RATE (BIRDS/100NH) | |
| DAILY TOTAL | 15 | 4 | 23 | 107.75 | 21.35 |
| SEASON TOTAL | 2010 | 48 | 23 | 8169.55 | 28.15 |