It looks like we will see birds moving on both Thursday and Friday nights, as wind gradually become more conducive for migration. Conditions tonight will favor migration over New Jersey and southern New York, while tomorrow night we should expect more widespread migration across the mid-Atlantic, northeastern US and southern Canada. A general westerly component to the wind should push birds toward the coast, which is always good for Cape May NJ… so visiting our new Morning Flight counter, Tom Johnson, will be a great way to start off Friday and Saturday.
Southerly flow returns on Saturday and migration should cease until early next week. Right now it looks like Wednesday will be the next good flight after this weekend… stay tuned!
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National Park dredge spoils – a couple hours this morning. This is along the Delaware River in Gloucester County, NJ. A quiet morning, but some migrants around – I am just not sure when they came in!
1 TENNESSEE WARBLER
2 YELLOW WARBLERS
1 MAGNOLIA WARBLER
1 BLACK and WHITE WARBLER
2 AMERICAN REDSTARTS
1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH
1 MOURNING WARBLER
1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
BOBOLINKS around also.
Saturday morning I can’t get an early start because of work. Hence – from 9:30 to 10:30AM around most of the same area I hit at the dredge spoils yesterday – I had only:
1 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER
1 BLACK and WHITE WARBLER
1 AMERICAN REDSTART
1 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT
and 1 unidentified empi flycatcher.
I had assumed that stuff didn’t come in, but after talking to a friend who had a nice morning along the Delaware Bayshore – 14 warbler species – I am thinking maybe it just got quiet early.