Another night of bumper migration over the Garden State. Here’s the radar:
Although we obviously cannot decipher the species composition by radar alone, the reports from Sandy Hook and Cape May indicate that much of this latest push of migrants are Yellow-rumped Warblers and White-throated Sparrows.
Cheers
DLP
David,
It was fairly good this morning with numbers of YR’s and WT’s. But Monday the 11th was the killer day with 13 species of sparrows here at Duke including 4 Vesper Sparrows, Orange-crowned Warbler and 100+ WC Sparrows. By the way, had thousands of Snow Geese and 4 Golden Eagles at Chimney Rock in the last 48 hours! Also a juvenile RH Woodpecker there as well on Monday morning. Talk to you soon. Will try to keep you updated on things. GH Horned Owl ate GB Heron in my backyard the other night. Pretty interesting I suppose. – Chris Aquila, Natural Resources and Research Supervisor, Duke farms Foundation.
Excellent flight this morning in Cumberland County. I counted 1100
individual birds – I know I missed a lot. 3/4 of the total was
sparrows. 11 species with Swamp edging out White-throated as the most
numerous. Also Chipping, 1 Clay-colored, Field, 1 Vesper, Savannah,
Seaside, Song, 4 Lincoln’s, and White-crowned. Many Yellow-rumped,
some Palms, 2 Blackpolls, and 8 Common Yellowthroats. 6 Hermit
Thrushes, Juncos, Winter Wrens, Golden and Ruby-crowned Kinglets.
A fantastic morning! Birded from 7:30 to 10:15AM.