The day before (Monday) was when this cold front we are now experiencing moved through. Rain was the state before latest morning and early afternoon clearing and so no count was able to be conducted, nor was any morning flight migration activity noticed during the precipitation.
There were steady ~10mph winds from the NNE this morning and so a good flight was bound to happen. Interestingly, it took about 30 minutes to really get started and the most abundant bird migrating during the first quarter hour of the day was Sharp-shinned Hawk.
The songbirds got cranking to the tune of ~1900 individuals, mostly Yellow-rumped Warblers (1507) for three hours. A curious highlight was my first-ever Rough-legged Hawk from the MF site. I say curious because this light morph glided and circled to the north over the eastern treeline, while the bird seen at the Hawkwatch that morning (and the prior afternoon) had flown generally south over the bay to Delaware! A nice overall standard variety of species featured two northbound Pine Siskin.
http://www.trektellen.org/count/view/1746/20171017
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