8 - 12 October 1999
by Anthony White
This is a preliminary trip report of my visit to Grand Bahama Oct. 8-12, 1999. While I was there, I birded with Aileen Bainton, Bruce Hallett, and Woody and Betsy Bracey. The trip was timed to coincide with fall migration. Bruce Hallett and Woody Bracey were also on GB Oct 6 and 7, and their totals are included below. We saw 114 species including 28 warblers and several rarities. We also relocated a small group of brown-headed nuthatches, now rare on GB. We held a big-day in accordance with ABA big-day rules and saw 80 species. (Bruce Hallett returned after hurricane Irene and birding alone saw 92 species in one day.)
Here is a list of the species seen Oct 6 - 12. The first number is
the
number of days seen (max 7); the second is the highest daily total .
| Least Grebe | 6/10+young |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 6/3 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 3/2 |
| Magnificent Frigatebird | 1/1 |
| Great Blue Heron | 4/13 |
| Great Egret | 4/6 |
| Snowy Egret | 3/2 |
| Little Blue Heron | 3/2 |
| Cattle Egret | 1/3 |
| Green Heron | 6/12 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 2/5 |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 1/2 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 4/25 |
| Ring-necked Duck | 1/1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 7/7 |
| Osprey | 4/2 |
| Northern Harrier | 1/1 Imm. |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 5/3 |
| American Kestrel | 4/1 |
| Merlin | 6/7 |
| Peregrine | 4/3 |
| Virginia Rail | 1/2 |
| Purple Gallinule | 1/1 |
| Common Moorhen | 4/10 |
| American Coot | 5/2 |
| Black-bellied Plover | 2/1 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 2/1 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 3/4 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 2/4 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 5/9 |
| Ruddy Turnstone | 3/20 |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | 2/1 |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | 2/2 |
| Common Snipe | 1/2 |
| Laughing Gull | 3/150+ |
| Royal Tern | 6/150+ |
| Rock Dove | 7/20 |
| White-crowned Pigeon | 7/40+ |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | 7/75 |
| Zenaida Dove | 1/4 |
| Mourning Dove | 5/6 |
| Common Ground-Dove | 7/20 |
| Key West Quail-Dove | 1/1 |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 4/3 |
| Smooth-billed Ani | 7/6 |
| Antillean Nighthawk | 2/1 |
| Chuck-will's-widow | 2/1 |
| Cuban Emerald | 7/35 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 7/8 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 2/1 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 6/10 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 1/1 |
| Cuban Pewee | 6/5 |
| Lasagra's Flycatcher | 5/3 |
| Gray Kingbird | 5/7 |
| Loggerhead Kingbird | 5/4 |
| Bahama Swallow | 1/6 |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | 1/3 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 7/12 |
| Swainson's Thrush | 1/4 |
| Veery | 1/1 |
| Red-legged Thrush | 7/20 |
| Gray Catbird | 7/8 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 7/25 |
| European Starling | 5/50 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 6/8 |
| Thick-billed Vireo | 6/10 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 1/1 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 7/12 |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | 1/2 |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 1/1 |
| Tennessee Warbler | 1/2 |
| Nashville Warbler | 1/1 |
| Northern Parula | 6/12 |
| Yellow Warbler | 3/2 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 1/2 |
| Magnolia Warbler | 7/10 |
| Cape May Warbler | 7/35 |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | 6/25 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 1/1 |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 7/12 |
| Olive-capped Warbler | 5/5 |
| Pine Warbler | 4/8 |
| Prairie Warbler | 7/20 |
| Palm Warbler | 7/200+ |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | 1/1 |
| Blackpoll Warbler | 1/1 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 7/25 |
| American Redstart | 7/75 |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 3/3 |
| Swaison's Warbler | 3/4 |
| Ovenbird | 7/25 |
| Northern Waterthrush | 7/14 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | 1/1 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 7/100+ |
| Bahama Yellowthroat | 6/4 |
| Hooded Warbler | 7/7 |
| Wilson's Warbler | 3/1 |
| Bananaquit | 7/25 |
| Stripe-headed Tanager | 5/8 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1/1 |
| Blue Grosbeak | /1 |
| Indigo Bunting | 6/30 |
| Dickcissel | 1/1 |
| Black-faced Grassquit | 7/25 |
| Greater Antillean Bullfinch | 5/4 |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | 2/1 |
| Bobolink | 6/50 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 6/200 |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | 1/1 Adult Female |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 1/1 Adult Male |
| Shiny Cowbird | 2/2 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 5/3 |
| House Sparrow | 7/25 |
Tony White
CdrAWhite@aol.com