22-23 October 2011 - Morning Flight

Saturday and Sunday were wonderful days to be outside in Cape May, with birds everywhere! Morning flight this weekend was the best of the season, with over 15,000 Yellow-rumped Warblers on Saturday and upwards of 10,000 American Robins on both days as well. While these aren't record numbers, they are very solid flights that are very welcome here after a relatively slow autumn for songbird morning flight. Interesting songbird events during morning flight at Higbee this weekend included 10+ Blue-headed Vireo on Saturday morning, 30 Brown Creepers on Saturday, 3 late Connecticut Warblers, and a nice sprinkling of Eastern Meadowlarks, Rusty Blackbirds, Purple Finches, and American Pipits.