{"id":1103,"date":"2014-06-10T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2019-03-25T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:02:18","slug":"montrose-big-day-part-ii-103-species-may-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/montrose-big-day-part-ii-103-species-may-21-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Montrose Big Day Part II – 103 Species, May 21, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran another Big Day at Montrose today, May 21. My first Big Day on May 8 yielded 103 species in 5.5 hours, split between 4.5 hours in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Today I started at 5:30 a.m. and ended at 10 for the morning shift, and again from 4 to 5 p.m. for the afternoon shift, so I started and ended at the same time and did the same number of hours as my May 8 attempt. I ended up with 103 species, the same as last time. I couldn’t have picked a better day to do a Big Day as Montrose was loaded with birds. I haven’t seen passerine numbers like this in some years. Every tree and shrub seemed to be dripping with warblers. Here’s my complete list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nCanada Goose
\nMallard
\nBlue-winged Teal
\nRed-breasted Merganser
\nDouble-crested Cormorant
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nGreen Heron
\nLeast Bittern
\nBlack-crowned Night-Heron
\nCooper’s Hawk
\nAmerican Coot
\nBlack-bellied Plover
\nSemipalmated Plover
\nKilldeer
\nSpotted Sandpiper
\nLeast Sandpiper
\nWhite-rumped Sandpiper
\nSemipalmated Sandpiper
\nDunlin
\nShort-billed Dowitcher
\nSanderling
\nHerring Gull
\nRing-billed Gull
\nForster’s Tern
\nCaspian Tern
\nMourning Dove
\nChimney Swift
\nDowny Woodpecker
\nBlack-billed Cuckoo
\nOlive-sided Flycatcher
\nEastern Wood-Pewee
\nLeast Flycatcher
\nAlder Flycatcher
\nWillow Flycatcher
\nYellow-bellied Flycatcher
\nGreat Crested Flycatcher
\nEastern Kingbird
\nRed-eyed Vireo
\nPhiladelphia Vireo
\nWarbling Vireo
\nPurple Martin
\nBank Swallow
\nBarn Swallow
\nNorthern Rough-winged Swallow
\nTree Swallow
\nCliff Swallow
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nMarsh Wren
\nRuby-crowned Kinglet
\nBlue-gray Gnatcatcher
\nGray-cheeked Thrush
\nVeery<\/td>\n		\nSwainson’s Thrush
\nWood Thrush
\nAmerican Robin
\nGray Catbird
\nEuropean Starling
\nCedar Waxwing
\nOrange-crowned Warbler
\nNashville Warbler
\nTennessee Warbler
\nNorthern Parula
\nYellow Warbler
\nChestnut-sided Warbler
\nMagnolia Warbler
\nYellow-rumped Warbler
\nBlack-throated Blue Warbler
\nBlackburnian Warbler
\nBay-breasted Warbler
\nBlackpoll Warbler
\nCape May Warbler
\nPalm Warbler
\nBlack-and-white Warbler
\nAmerican Redstart
\nNorthern Waterthrush
\nOvenbird
\nCanada Warbler
\nWilson’s Warbler
\nCommon Yellowthroat
\nYellow-breasted Chat
\nMourning Warbler
\nConnecticut Warbler
\nChipping Sparrow
\nClay-colored Sparrow
\nSavannah Sparrow
\nLincoln’s Sparrow
\nSwamp Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nWhite-crowned Sparrow
\nWhite-throated Sparrow
\nGrasshopper Sparrow
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nIndigo Bunting
\nBobolink
\nDickcissel
\nScarlet Tanager
\nRed-winged Blackbird
\nCommon Grackle
\nBrown-headed Cowbird
\nBaltimore Oriole
\nOrchard Oriole
\nAmerican Goldfinch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I had 98 species in the morning and 5 more when I went back in the afternoon. The 5 additional birds I had in the afternoon were Cliff Swallow, Black-crowned Night-Heron, American Coot, Northern Parula, and White-throated Sparrow. Unlike last time I checked the Golf Course Pond, which added the Night-Heron. I also had 24 species of warblers, which is the best I’ve done at Montrose in a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran another Big Day at Montrose today, May 21. My first Big Day on May 8 yielded 103 species in 5.5 hours, split between 4.5 hours in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Today I started at 5:30 a.m. and ended at 10 for the morning shift, and again from 4 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[70,208],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-best-spring-migration-days","tag-big-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}