Monday, October 21, 2019

October's Big Day 2019

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
My truncated October Big Day was very pleasing.  I left home at 5:15 am for my first stop at Harrison’s Point, St. Lucy, getting there at 5:55 am.  My target birds were Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata), Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), and Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus).  After spending close to an hour I only saw one of my targeted birds, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  So it was off to my next stop, a private location further north, and to my surprise the other two birds were waiting for me there, along with another rarity, a pair of Northern Shovelers(Spatula clypeata). That ended my birding for the morning.  Just after midday, I made two more stops, one of which resulted in another rarity, a juvenile Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica).
In the four stops I made, I recorded 42 species.  See the checklist below.

  1. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna autumnalis
  2. Blue-winged Teal - Spatula discors
  3. Northern Shoveler - Spatula clypeata
  4. Scaly-naped Pigeon - Patagioenas squamosa
  5. Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
  6. Common Ground-Dove - Columbina Passerina
  7. Zenaida Dove - Zenaida aurita
  8. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Coccyzus americanus
  9. Green-throated Carib - Eulampis holosericeus
  10. Antillean Crested Hummingbird - Orthorhyncus cristatus
  11. Common Gallinule - Gallinula galeata
  12. Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio martinica
  13. American Golden-Plover - Pluvialis dominica
  14. Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus
  15. Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
  16. Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
  17. Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla
  18. Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius
  19. Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria
  20. Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
  21. Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
  22. Magnificent Frigatebird - Fregata magnificens
  23. Snowy Egret - Egretta thula
  24. Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
  25. Green Heron - Butorides virescens
  26. Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus
  27. Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon
  28. Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
  29. Caribbean Elaenia - Elaenia martinica
  30. Gray Kingbird - Tyrannus dominicensis
  31. Black-whiskered Vireo - Vireo altiloquus
  32. Caribbean Martin - Progne dominicensis
  33. Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica
  34. Bobolink - Dolichonyx oryzivorus
  35. Shiny Cowbird - Molothrus bonariensis
  36. Carib Grackle - Quiscalus lugubris
  37. Yellow Warbler - Setophaga petechia
  38. Blackpoll Warbler - Setophaga striata
  39. Grassland Yellow-Finch - Sicalis luteola
  40. Bananaquit - Coereba flaveola
  41. Barbados Bullfinch - Loxigilla barbadensis
  42. Black-faced Grassquit - Melanospiza bicolor
Glossy Ibis

Yellow-billed Cuckoo


Bobolink


Blackpoll Warbler

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