Moderate migration was evident over New Jersey last night. Clear skies and favorable winds made for good migration conditions over the entire northeast and migration was evident all the way up into Maine. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through sunrise this morning, although you’ll notice that the radar stopped refreshing at about 2am, and resumed at 7am, so there is some data missing. It does look as if the west winds may have pushed a significant portion of the birds toward the NE coast…Calvin? How’s Sandy Hook this morning??
Alright, now it’s time to go ground-truth! 🙂
Good Birding
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A nice morning walk around HMF indicated that birds arrived here during last nights migration. Not the diversity or density as May 5th, but still a very birdy morning.
Here’s the list(8:00am – 9:00am):
Mourning Dove
Hairy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Blue-winged Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
A hurried walk around the Jacques Lane section of Six Mile Run indicated loads of birds, didn’t have time to make a list. That place is one of the birdiest that I have ever visited. Several pairs of orchard orioles near the abandoned farmhouse.
I think most of the birds were breeders, though.
David
After checking with several birding groups a total of 21 species of Warbler were seen at the Hook today. Highlight’s included, Kentucky Cape May, Bay-brested and nice numbers of Canada’s and Wilsons. There was also a Blue-winged doing an almost perfect call of a Golden-winged. Chestnut- sided, Maggie and Blackpoll were well represented.In an unusual note, four Black Vultures were seen. Very rare for the Hook. We weren’t at the Hook on May 5 so we can’t compare todays flight to the 5th but the numbers were not overwhelming. By the way, Calvin’s Hawk watching days ended on the 15th.
Stuart & Wendy Malmid