21st Oct, 2009

Light migration into the Mid-Atlantic

Winds were mostly out of the southwest last night, but less so at about 300o feet. This appears to have triggered some migration into the Mid-Atlantic by this morning. Although I don’t have time to post the radar today, I did check it out, and it is less than exciting. Hopefully that means the Sage Thrasher found at Sandy Hook yesterday will have decided to stay put through today. Otherwise expect local movements of birds into more optimal foraging habitat this morning. It’ll be interesting to see how the morning flight at Higbee’s pans out today, as even a small flight of birds headed in the right direction can be impressive on the ground. You can find out what Cameron has counted by checking the Sightings page here: http://www.birdcapemay.org/sightings/

Good Birding!
David

Posted by: David La Puma

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Fairly light flight (although that is relative, as I thought it was great!) at the dike this morning with Yellow-rumps the vast majority of the movement, but it was a fairly birdy day overall. The Beanery and Cape Island Creek were good and sparrow-rific. Cameron and I had a late Orchard Oriole at Cape Island, and at The Beanery, I managed to squeak out 6 species of warblers, inc one Prairie and one BT Blue.

By: Derek Lovitch on October 21st, 2009
at 4:39 pm

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