week of Sept 4 thru the 10

I almost let the week go by with posting last weeks list. It looks like migration is ramping up. For me it is the shorebird migration that I love to see here are a group of Sanderlings resting on the south end beach

but I did enjoy some very nice warblers. There was a good gathering of Wood Storks
I had to share this picture of George Smith and Tricia on the beach. It was so much fun to sharing the amazing beach with them.
It is always fun to learn about Jekyll.

Here is the list

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 6-11, 2011
Species 70
Weather for the week: Cool and party cloudy skies, perfect weather


GISCO MARINA ROAD
8 Roseate Spoonbill
DOWNING MUSGROVE CAUSEWAY
7 Wood Stork
3 Double-crested Cormorant
5 Great Egret
2 Snowy Egret
2 Turkey Vulture
30 Laughing Gull
1 Royal Tern
6 Mourning Dove
Welcome Center Wildlife Viewing Tower
40 Black-bellied Plover
35 Semipalmated Plover
8 Willets
2 Whimbrel
20 Semi-western type peeps
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
JEKYLL ISLAND CAMPGROUND SANCTUARY
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 White-eyed Vireo
4 Blue Jay
8 Barn Swallow
6 Carolina Chickadee
2 Carolina Wren
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2 Northern Mockingbird
1 Brown Thrasher
1 Black-and-white Warbler
1 Northern Parula
2 Eastern Towhee
1 Summer Tanager
10 Northern Cardinal
6 Boat-tailed Grackle
8 House Finch
CORNER OF ST. ANDREWS AND MACY LANE OUT TO BEACH
10 Black Vulture
10 Turkey Vulture
2 White-eyed Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
3 Barn Swallow
3 Northern Mockingbird
1 Black & white Warbler
3 Black-throated Blue Warblers (males)
1 Common Yellowthroat (female)
5 Northern Cardinal
3 Bobolink
1 Empidonax flycatcher
I did not good enough look to get to species. The bird was more brownish on the back, big headed with a large white eye ring. The wing bars were also bold and the white extended into the edges of the tertials. The upper bill was dark and the lower bill was mostly yellow-orange. The throat was whitish.
JEKYLL POINT
1 Wood Stork
1 Osprey
15 Willet
20 Ruddy Turnstone
19 Red Knot
180 Sanderling
200 Laughing Gull
3 Ring-billed Gull
1 Caspian Tern
50 Royal Terns
2 Forster's Terns
250 Black Skimmer
SOCCER FIELD
9 Killdeer
AMPHITHEATER POND AREA
3 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
HISTORIC DISTRICT (WILD BIRDS UNLIMITED)
1 Common Yellowthroat
2 Painted Bunting
4 House Finch
JEKYLL CREEK BRIDGE AREA
1 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle
1 Blue-winged Teal
GOLF COURSES (INDIAN MOUND)
1 Pied-billed Grebe
3 Anhinga
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Little Blue Heron
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
3 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Solitary Sandpiper
4 Eurasian Collared-Dove
7 Mourning Dove
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Belted Kingfisher
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Pileated Woodpecker
2 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 White-eyed Vireo
5 Blue Jay
15 Barn Swallow
10 Carolina Chickadee
12 Brown-headed Nuthatch
2 Carolina Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
8 Eastern Bluebird
6 Northern Mockingbird
9 European Starling
3 Northern Waterthrush
2 Yellow Warbler
6 Pine Warbler
2 Prairie Warbler
10 Northern Cardinal