Overcast skies with intermittent rain and a fairly early start, kept things from getting too hot for nine birders on the Coastal Birding Association's first "fall" field trip. Not long after reaching the end of the, used to be pier now elevated walkway, the arguably, best bird of the day, MARBLED GODWIT, was spotted. Other birds of note included GRAY KINGBIRD (seen at the adjacent condominiums), a WHITE- MORPH REDDISH EGRET, several PIPING PLOVERS (including one banded individual), SNOWY PLOVERS, seven species of terns and two juvenile NORTHERN GANNETS. As the first of several rainstorms threatened, participants decided it was time to try our luck at the Shell Mounds. All in all the Shell Mounds were pretty slow as might be expected this early in migration. The hoped-for Cerulean Warbler, did NOT make an appearance but warblers that did included: YELLOW, BLACK-AND-WHITE and KENTUCKY other neotropical migrants included RED-EYED VIREOS, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS and a SUMMER TANAGER.
Dauphin Island Public Beach:Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Reddish Egret
Osprey
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Marbled Godwit
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Black Skimmer
Mourning Dove
Gray Kingbird
House Finch
Shell Mounds:
Broad Winged Hawk
Chimney Swift
Yellow Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
SummerTanager
Native birds
Other:
Magnificent Frigatebird
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