Today's count was a noticeable deceleration from yesterday, but still contained a good passage of warblers (454 individuals of 13 species). The composition of the flight was interesting, with an excellent flight of Northern Waterthrushes (126) - more than 3x yesterday's count (39) - and more Yellow Warblers (53) too. Northern Waterthrushes were on the move early this morning, with a dozen tallied before the sun even came up. Red-breasted Nuthatches moved in appreciably smaller numbers today (20; only ~5% of yesterday's 374). Otherwise, following on the heels of 8/29's first tanagers of the fall, today's flight featured the first Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 11
Empidonax flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 43
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 20
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Cedar Waxwing - 48
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Northern Parula - 9
Yellow Warbler - 53
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 2
Cape May Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7
Blackburnian Warbler - 1
Prairie Warbler - 5
Black-and-white Warbler - 25
American Redstart - 156
Ovenbird - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 126
warbler sp. - 66
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 5
Bobolink - 38
Baltimore Oriole - 30
Total = 659
Other highlights included 8 Brown Pelicans in an offshore feeding frenzy and a small flight of 20 northbound Black Terns. The real surprise, however, was an unidentified whale that Tom Johnson spotted in the Delaware Bay; it was only seen a few times in partial breaches.
