Palm Warbler - September Review

Palm Warbler - September Review

September was a good month for birding, yet we had a slow start to the fall migration. Only ten warblers with Palm the most numerous. Had a large flock of the newly arriving Palm Warblers at Sanibel Lighthouse on the 30th. Hopefully October will see the great fall-out we are waiting for.

The Cuban Pewee I twiched for in Everglades National Park is my first and only ABA-code 5. Most of my twiching is a disappointment, but sometimes I can manage to get the hit. One disappointment was missing the red-necked phalarope localed at Bunch Beach. Missed it by minutes.  Rechecked several times, but maybe it will return later.

Some favorites I found included included Black Terns at Bunche Beach and a beautiful juvenile Peregrine Falcon at Sanibel Lighthouse. Aside the cuban pewee, a cool sighting was the dark Red-tailed Hawk I localed close to home.  The bird was found September 1st till the 7th on the same snag and made a re-appearance on the 30th. No doubt the red-tail is a western red-tail hawk and which is not a variety we would expect in south Florida.



Western Red-tailed Hawk



My List for the Month - (125)

1. Mottled Duck
2. Pied-billed Grebe
3. Brown Pelican
4. Double-crested Cormorant
5. Anhinga
6. Magnificent Frigatebird
7. Great Blue Heron
8. Great Egret
9. Snowy Egret
10. Little Blue Heron
11. Tricolored Heron
12. Reddish Egret
13. Cattle Egret
14. Green Heron
15. Black-crowned Night-Heron
16. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
17. White Ibis
18. Glossy Ibis
19. Roseate Spoonbill
20. Wood Stork
21. Black Vulture
22. Turkey Vulture
23. Osprey
24. Snail Kite
25. Bald Eagle
26. Cooper's Hawk
27. Red-shouldered Hawk
28. Red-tailed Hawk
29. Crested Caracara
30. American Kestrel
31. Merlin
32. Peregrine Falcon
33. Common Moorhen
34. Limpkin
35. Sandhill Crane
36. Black-bellied Plover
37. Wilson's Plover
38. Semipalmated Plover
39. Piping Plover
40. Killdeer
41. American Oystercatcher
42. Black-necked Stilt
43. American Avocet
44. Spotted Sandpiper
45. Solitary Sandpiper
46. Greater Yellowlegs
47. Willet
48. Lesser Yellowlegs
49. Marbled Godwit
50. Ruddy Turnstone
51. Red Knot
52. Sanderling
53. Semipalmated Sandpiper
54. Western Sandpiper
55. Least Sandpiper
56. Short-billed Dowitcher
57. Laughing Gull
58. Least Tern
59. Black Tern
60. Forster's Tern
61. Royal Tern
62. Sandwich Tern
63. Black Skimmer
64. Rock Pigeon
65. Eurasian Collared-Dove
66. Mourning Dove
67. Common Ground-Dove
68. Monk Parakeet
69. Burrowing Owl
70. Barred Owl
71. Common Nighthawk
72. Chimney Swift
73. Belted Kingfisher
74. Red-headed Woodpecker
75. Red-bellied Woodpecker
76. Downy Woodpecker
77. Hairy Woodpecker
78. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
79. Pileated Woodpecker
80. Eastern Wood-Pewee
81. Cuban Pewee - Lifer
82. Great Crested Flycatcher
83. Eastern Kingbird
84. Gray Kingbird
85. Loggerhead Shrike
86. White-eyed Vireo
87. Red-eyed Vireo
88. Blue Jay
89. American Crow
90. Fish Crow
91. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
92. Purple Martin
93. Tree Swallow
94. Bank Swallow
95. Barn Swallow
96. Carolina Chickadee
97. Tufted Titmouse
98. Brown-headed Nuthatch
99. Carolina Wren
100. House Wren
101. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
102. Eastern Bluebird
103. Northern Mockingbird
104. Common Myna
105. European Starling
106. Northern Parula
107. Blackburnian Warbler
108. Yellow-throated Warbler
109. Pine Warbler
110. Prairie Warbler
111. Palm Warbler
112. Black-and-white Warbler
113. American Redstart
114. Ovenbird
115. Hooded Warbler
116. Eastern Towhee
117. Northern Cardinal
118. Indigo Bunting
119. Bobolink
120. Red-winged Blackbird
121. Eastern Meadowlark
122. Common Grackle
123. Boat-tailed Grackle
124. Orchard Oriole
125. House Sparrow