Morning birding, Squibnocket, Chilmark, MA 09/30/08.

 Two observers covering a couple of the fall hot spots on Martha’s Vineyard, Squibnocket and Aquinnah, had about eleven warbler species and four vireo species, along with a sapsucker and a few Baltimore Orioles.  The day started near the cliffs at the western tip of the Island, with Dickcissals and Bobolinks about, the mimid collection, a couple of E. Phoebes and a kestrel.  Then the quest moved to thickets just interior to the beaches of Squibnocket

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 Female Black-throated Blue at Aquinnah.  A male was seen briefly later.

 A Magnolia and a fall Yellow were hanging out together.

 A weak-capped Wilson’s:

 Black & whites are always nice.  Noisy Carolinas kept track of our progress. 

 Northern Parula:

 We saw two Mourning Cloaks and a Cloudless Sulphur motoring by.

Two whimbrels were reported to me by phone from the Farm Institute field nearest the left (or eastern) fork in the road to Katama Beach, around noon today.

Birds are cool!  Lanny

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