Morning Flight - 26 September 2012

The run of interesting mornings of passerines and near-passerines has temporarily come to a close, but this seems to be the nature of Morning Flight.  Songbird flights definitely appear to come in spurts, often interspersed by days of very slow redetermined migration (and I use the term "migration" lightly with respect to today's flight). 

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 3
American Robin - 8
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 1
warbler sp. - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1

Total = 22

With so few songbirds to look at, Morning Flight morphed into a seawatch today (or, I suppose, more accurately, a baywatch...but I digress).  Most birds were southbound - into the wind - and included the highest tally of Northern Gannets (16) thus far, a male Black Scoter, 2 adult light-morph Parasitic Jaegers, and a jaeger sp.  The day also featured 13 southbound Chimney Swifts, the highest number I've seen for some time here.