Morning Flight, 16 September 2015

This morning 'twas nice to see a high neotropical migrant "diversity flight" while the getting is still good.  Twenty-two species of warblers on a very light northwest wind in mid-September is what Cape May is all about.  The pace of the flight was punctuated with little flocks of warblers flying over different sections of the count area (the eastern impoundment area west to the Delaware Bay) in pulses.

Species	Number
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	3
Belted Kingfisher	1
Downy Woodpecker	2
Northern Flicker	27
Eastern Wood-Pewee	4
Alder Flycatcher	1
Empidonax sp.	1
Eastern Kingbird	30
Philadelphia Vireo	1
Warbling/Philadelphia Vireo	2
Red-eyed Vireo	16
Blue Jay	3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	5
European Starling	88
Cedar Waxwing	210
Ovenbird	4
Northern Waterthrush	23
Black-and-white Warbler	26
Tennessee Warbler	7
Nashville Warbler	2
Connecticut Warbler	1
Common Yellowthroat	1
American Redstart	122
Cape May Warbler	13
Northern Parula	91
Magnolia Warbler	2
Blackburnian Warbler	2
Yellow Warbler	4
Chestnut-sided Warbler	3
Blackpoll Warbler	13
"Baypoll" warbler	1
Black-throated Blue Warbler	4
Palm Warbler	7
Pine Warbler	3
Yellow-rumped Warbler	1
Prairie Warbler	2
Black-throated Green Warbler	6
Wilson's Warbler	1
warbler sp.	63
Scarlet Tanager	8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	2
Blue Grosbeak	1
Indigo Bunting	3
Bobolink	81
Baltimore Oriole	2
House Finch	6
American Goldfinch	3
Total warblers	402
Total	902