Woohoo! It’s so nice to see them keep coming like this! Last night was similar to the night before, with a moderate movement of birds over the Garden State, and heavy movements across the eastern and central flyways. Winds, again, differed depending on the altitude, which makes for some difficult radar interpretation, but there was an obvious NE –> SW movement throughout the evening regardless. There was a little rain early this morning, which is also evident on the radar, and may have caused some local increases in densities. While all regular migrant traps are probably good this morning, I’d be interested at what Garret looks like given the location of the rain just before sunrise. Okay, I’m off the check the yard.
Good Birding
One response to “Another night of migration”
Chris Vogel’s report from Jerseybirds:
While it is impossible to say how many there were,
exactly, there were well over 100 Northern
Waterthrushes around this morning, they were zipping
around everywhere at dawn, and about 90 or so were
flying out of Higbee’s Beach alone. 6 Were over the
parking lot at Wawa. Well over a hundred is quite
conservatively hedged.
Also about at Higbee’s & Hidden Valley were, among
others:
1 Black Billed Cuckoo
8-10 Least Flycatchers
2 Traill’s Flyycatchers
2 Veeries
another 6 N. Waterthrushes
12 Chestnut-sideds- including a few Ad. Males
8-10(!) Canada Warblers
1 adult Male Cape May, and a couple of others
5-6 Worm Eatings
2 Magnolia Warblers
4 Prairie Warblers
probably 40 each of Redstarts and Black and Whites
10 Blue-winged warblers
1 Brewster’s Warbler
18 or so Yellow Warblers
12 red-eyed Vireos
Lots and lots of Eastern Kingbirds, good numbers of
Bobolinks, and significantly fewer Gnatcatchers,
Hummingbirds, and Baltimore Orioles.
There were several very good, and one spectacular
mixed flock. At several points, small groups of
redstarts were foraging on the ground, sallying up
from the grass in the path.
A N. Harrier was soaring over Cape Island Creek.
THe Meadows held-
the A. Avocet found earlier this morning
60 or so Short-billed Dows
6 Stilt Sandpipers
5 or six Pectorals
1 White-rumped Sandpiper
nice numbers of Yellowlegs and Peep.
and finally, a juv Black Tern was plucking the surface
of the bunker pond for insects.
Cheers
CJV
Cape May, NJ