Three days in a row with calm conditions during the preceding nights and a westerly wind flow could've stirred up more exciting conditions for migration, perhaps, if warmer air hadn't stifled the cold front's advent through the region towards Cape May, situated on its double coastline.
A similar pattern of dispersed migration occurred on all three days. Some birds were moving but certainly not in the numbers that a less diluted front would produce for the morning flight around the peninsula. Songbirds engaging in these flight behaviors tend to favor the most or nearly most efficient way about it which seems to be often facilitated by flying straight on into the wind, while adjusting course, as warranted, for coastline and topography, and, often perhaps, the opportunity to feed.
Enjoy the diversity that is this 'third week' in October and its avian representatives to greet you-- Blue Jay, both kinglets, the start of American Robin, Eastern Bluebird, American Pipit, Pine Siskin, Nashville, Cape May, Blackpoll, Palm, Yellow-rumped, a late Prairie, and Black-throated Green Warblers, Chipping Sparrow, and Dark-eyed Junco-- representing this current time and season, and era.
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