We arrived at RMSP this morning in the hope of finding migrants after listening to the overnight weather report that forecast light northwest winds. What we found at first was fog - lots of fog. Birding started out slowly at the golf course, but we were eventually able to see a good variety of sparrows, including two Clay-colored and one Lincoln's Sparrow. As the fog lifted birds starting moving down the beach, highlighted by Yellow-rumped Warblers and Pine Siskins. Siskins continued down the beach all morning - we eventually tallied 129 birds. Other birds moving down the beach in number were Eastern Phoebe, Cedar Waxwing, and Goldfinch. We heard two Dickcissels calling, as well as observing two colorful Bobolinks in the shrubbery at the main entrance to Field 2. As the birding died down the butterflies (Red Admiral, Monarch, Mourning Cloak, and Painted Lady, among others) and dragonflies (mostly Common Green Darner and Black Saddlebags) started moving down the beach in number. By late morning the temperature was approaching August-like levels and we called it a day.
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