Eastern Point 5/8

From Susan Hedman:

John Nelson and I led a BBC walk today and it was a painfully slow morning for birds in May. Sometimes the coast can be less than great for migration, and this was one of those days. We were struggling to find birds. The foggy cool conditions may have been responsible, we certainly had enough people trying to see birds. 


Location: Eastern Point Gloucester 
Observation date: 5/8/11 
Notes: In more than 15 years of doing this walk on mother's day on Eastern Point, today was the worst I have encountered. The lack of birds was overwhelming for a May weekend. The conditions were cloudy/foggy and cool. Sun finally came out around 11:00...too late for most folks had left at 10:30 or much earlier. I stayed a little later to enjoy the swallows flying around the lighthouse and breakwater. As I was driving out,I heard the chick,vireo,chick of the white-eyed vireo. Turned the car around and found the bird. This was between the walled property before the yacht club and the Eastern Point Audubon. When I left the bird had flown across to the Audubon property. Had great looks. Stopped at the siene fields..one thrush species & BG Gnatcatcher. 
Number of species: 55 

Mute Swan 1 
Mallard 4 
Common Eider 40 
White-winged Scoter 3 
Long-tailed Duck 3 
Bufflehead 10 
Common Loon 2 
Double-crested Cormorant 30 
Great Egret 5 
Snowy Egret 2 
Killdeer 2 
Lesser Yellowlegs 1 
Ring-billed Gull 3 
Herring Gull 15 
Great Black-backed Gull 15 
Mourning Dove 3 
Downy Woodpecker 3 
Eastern Phoebe 1 
Great Crested Flycatcher 2 
White-eyed Vireo 1 
Warbling Vireo 2 
Blue Jay 2 
American Crow 12 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10 
Tree Swallow 6 
Barn Swallow 15 
Black-capped Chickadee 3 
Tufted Titmouse 2 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 
Carolina Wren 1 
House Wren 1 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 
Catharus sp. 1 
Gray Catbird 20 
Northern Mockingbird 2 
European Starling 5 
Northern Parula 1 
Yellow Warbler 20 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 
Black-throated Green Warbler 2 
Common Yellowthroat 2 
Eastern Towhee 1 
Chipping Sparrow 2 
Song Sparrow 7 
White-throated Sparrow 3 
White-crowned Sparrow 1 
Scarlet Tanager 1 
Northern Cardinal 5 
Red-winged Blackbird X 
Common Grackle X 
Brown-headed Cowbird 12 
Baltimore Oriole 2 
House Finch X 
American Goldfinch X 
House Sparrow X