Red-breasted Nuthatches (164) staged yet another impressive passage, with one pod after another taking flight during the second hour (109). Although most of the birds were low, some passing flocks were already specks high overhead, including one such group of eleven sky-high birds. With five more weeks remaining, the season total has now burgeoned to 1390 Red-breasted Nuthatches (!), the highest season total during the Morning Flight's ten-year duration (the second-highest mark was 1296 in 2010). This is the fourth time that Red-breasted Nuthatches have flown in triple-digits this year: 374 (8/29), 236 (9/24), 164 (9/27), and 157 (9/11).
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 4
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 164
American Robin - 26
Cedar Waxwing - 13
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Northern Parula - 6
Yellow Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 2
Palm Warbler - 6
Blackpoll Warbler - 135
"Baypoll" Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 4
warbler sp. - 32
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 2
Bobolink - 16
Baltimore Oriole - 4
Total = 432
Blue Jays have at last arrived in Cape May too. Although I was outstripped by Tom Reed at the hawk watch, today's 75 northbound birds at Morning Flight is far-and-away the season high count.
Blue Jays have at last arrived in Cape May too. Although I was outstripped by Tom Reed at the hawk watch, today's 75 northbound birds at Morning Flight is far-and-away the season high count.
