22 September 2011 - Morning Flight

Early rain and fog made this morning's songbird flight at Higbee Beach a washout. After hanging around for two hours (mostly hiding from the rain inside my car), I headed to Cape May Point State Park, where the birding was fairly slow, but we did see a Eurasian Collared-Dove fly past the hawkwatch a few times, and a calling American Golden-Plover headed west along the beach. The hawk flight was pretty slow, as expected on a dreary south wind day. What a lackluster September for migration weather at Cape May!