[MASSBIRD] Cape Cod migrants - 5/15

[Blair Nikula]

Although the Beech Forest (Provincetown) had just a modest assortment of migrants this morning, High Head in North Truro was alive with warblers and assorted other transients, including a Summer Tanager.  Highlights:

Beech Forest (0630-0745):
1 Wood Duck
1 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Least Flycatcher
2 Eastern Kingbirds
1 Blue-headed Vireo
2 Red-eyed Vireos
3 Red-breasted Nuthatches
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Swainson's Thrush (several others plus a Veery seen after I left)
1 Hermit Thrush
2 N. Parulas
3 Yellow Warblers
2 Magnolia Warblers
15 Yellow-rumped Warblers
3 Pine Warblers
1 Blackpoll Warbler
3 Black-and-white Warblers
1 Ovenbird
1 N. Waterthrush
2 Com. Yellowthroats
1 White-throated Sparrows
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

High Head, North Truro (0830 - 1000 hrs.)
1 Green Heron
4 Turkey Vultures
1 Osprey
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
2 Broad-winged Hawks
2 Least Flycatchers
6 Eastern Kingbirds
2 Red-breasted Nuthatches
1 Wood Thrush
25 Northern Parulas
20 Yellow Warblers
2 Chestnut-sided Warblers
15 Magnolia Warblers
20+ Black-throated Blue Warblers
12 Yellow-rumped Warblers
4 Black-throated Green Warblers
1 Prairie Warbler
2 Blackpoll Warblers
4 Black-and-white Warblers
6 American Redstarts
1 Ovenbird
1 Northern Waterthrush
12 Common Yellowthroats
2 Wilson's Warblers
1 SUMMER TANAGER (imm.m./f.)
1 Field Sparrow
2 White-crowned Sparrows
4 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
6 Bobolinks
1 Orchard Oriole (imm.m./f.)
15 Baltimore Orioles

Pilgrim Heights (1015 - 1145):
6 Turkey Vultures
2+ N. Harriers
4 Sharp-shinned Hawks
1 Cooper's Hawk
8 Broad-winged Hawks
1 Eastern Kingbird
1 Blue-headed Vireo
3+ Fish Crows
1 Brown Thrasher
1 Nashville Warbler
3 N. Parulas
5 Yellow Warblers
1 Magnolia Warbler
2 Yellow-rumped Warblers
2 Black-throated Green Warblers
1 Blackburnian Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
2 Ovenbirds
4 Com. Yellowthroats

Blair Nikula

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