View from the Field: Morning Flight, 13 September 2015

Let's Get This Party 'Started! Redstart-ed, that is (guffaw... thanks Cameron Cox for supplying me with the cool use of 'started'-- though I am guilty for the rest of the mess!). All 432 American Redstarts counted this morning were rocking out with the Morning Flight Project at the dike. As I type from my couch in Cape May Point I can hear one about every 15 seconds out my window. See you later my yellow and orange fired flames, and good luck with tonight's heavy northwest winds. I hope to see more of you tomorrow. Whatever the next few days hold, it is sure to be pretty good and interesting.

Don Freiday reports a great round-up of migrants in the Higbee fields from this morning. As he points out, it's not every day that the fields can have comparable numbers and diversity, or even more than the dike. Check out his advice on how to capitalize on a good day in Cape May, here:
http://freidaybird.blogspot.com/

Oops, I forgot to mention the awesome Western Kingbird from yesterday, but the same or different kingbird was seen a few times around the west side of Higbee, including the dike, today.

Species	number
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	1
Belted Kingfisher	1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	1
Western Kingbird	1
Eastern Kingbird	51
Red-eyed Vireo	4
Catharus sp.	1
European Starling	91
Cedar Waxwing	18
Northern Waterthrush	28
Black-and-white Warbler	12
Tennessee Warbler	4
Nashville Warbler	2
Oreothlypis sp.	1
American Redstart	432
Cape May Warbler	10
Northern Parula	19
Magnolia Warbler	2
Blackburnian Warbler	2
Yellow Warbler	7
Chestnut-sided Warbler	4
Blackpoll Warbler	6
Black-throated Blue Warbler	5
Palm Warbler	3
Prairie Warbler	1
Black-throated Green Warbler	4
warbler sp.	49
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	1
Dickcissel	2
Bobolink	47
Baltimore Oriole	8
Total warblers	591
Total	818