It was a good week on Jekyll. The nest of Anhinga are growing up. The warblers are still around on the Pine Lakes Golf Course and the beach was loaded with gulls terns and shorebirds. There were Red Knots but there were no bands on them.

WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
Weather for the week: The week started hot humid and still on Wednesday there was a few showers Thursday still hot but very nice breeze Friday morning was like a fall morning temp 74 degrees.
ISLAND WIDE
It is butterfly time on the island. There lots of Gulf Fritillary on the beach GISCO MARINA ROAD
15 Wood Stork
30 Great Egret
40 Snowy Egret
DOWNING MUSGROVE CAUSEWAY & VISITOR CENTER
10 Wood Stork
5 Black-bellied Plover
2 Wilson's Plover (juveniles)
25 Semipalmated Plover
1 Spotted Sandpiper
6 Willets
1 Whimbrel
30 Semi-western Sandpiper
10 Short-billed Dowitcher
10 Laughing Gull
15 Bobolink
JEKYLL POINT AREA
2 Snowy Egret
1 Black Vulture
5 Turkey Vulture
16 Ruddy Turnstone
16 Red Knot
240 Sanderling
3 Willet
251 Laughing Gull
4 Ring-billed Gull
2 Common Tern
77 Royal Tern
6 Sandwich Tern
450 Black Skimmer
2 Mourning Dove
9 Eastern Kingbird
60 Barn Swallow
10 Tree Swallow
SOCCER FIELD
7 Killdeer
AMPHITHEATER POND AREA
1 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Anhinga
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Little Blue Heron
1 Green Heron
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
22 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
6 Black Vulture
2 Turkey Vulture
2 Mourning Dove
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
2 Pileated Woodpecker
3 White-eyed Vireo
2 Red-eyed Vireo
5 Blue Jay
4 Barn Swallow
5 Carolina Chickadee
6 Brown-headed Nuthatch
2 Carolina Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
3 Pine Warbler
2 Prairie Warbler
2 American Redstart
1 Worm-eating Warbler
1 Summer Tanager
5 Northern Cardinal
HISTORIC DISTRICT (WILD BIRDS UNLIMITED)
1 Osprey
1 Pileated Woodpecker
4 House Finch
3 Northern Cardinal
3 Carolina Chickadee
2 Painted Bunting (immature)
3 American Redstart
1 Yellow-throated Warbler
GOLF COURSES (PINE LAKES)
5 Anhinga
1 Great Blue Heron
5 Great Egret
2 Snowy Egret
1 Little Blue Heron
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
4 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
3 Black Vulture
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle
1 Spotted Sandpiper
4 Mourning Dove
1 Great Horned Owl
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 White-eyed Vireo
2 Red-eyed Vireo
6 Blue Jay
4 Fish Crow
3 Barn Swallow
2 Carolina Chickadee
8 Brown-headed Nuthatch
2 Carolina Wren
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2 Eastern Bluebird
2 Northern Mockingbird
1 Black-and-white Warbler
3 American Redstart
3 Pine Warbler
2 Yellow-throated Warbler
5 Prairie Warbler
1 Eastern Towhee
CLAM CREEK AREA
4 Brown Pelican
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Great Egret
2 Snowy Egret
2 Tricolored Heron
50 Laughing Gull
100 Royal Tern
1 Black Tern
2 Mourning Dove
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 White-eyed Vireo
3 Carolina Chickadee
1 Carolina Wren
1 Brown Thrasher
3 Yellow Warbler
1 Prairie Warbler
1 Northern Waterthrush
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Summer Tanager
3 Boat-tailed Grackle (tailless)
JEKYLL ISLAND CAMPGROUND SANCTUARY
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4 Carolina Wren
2 Tufted Titmouse
1 Carolina Wren
1 Brown Thrasher
1 Worm-eating Warbler
1 Eastern Towhee
10 Northern Cardinal
1 Painted Bunting