Next month or so
This space will likely be pretty quiet for the next 4 weeks due to the dreaded Internal Medicine rotation at YNHH. Talk about bad timing, just as migration is really getting started!
- Nick
- Nick
Warblers in Flight: A Photographic Collection
While active migration has always been my favorite bird behavior to observe, my interest in the phenomenon called “morning flight” of nocturnal migrants had been minimal due to the unfortunate reality that I lived well over an hour’s drive from the nearest known reliable observation site, Bluff Point State Park in Groton, CT. In autumn 2020, thanks to improved public access to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, CT, I began to explore the northern tip of Willard’s Island as a morning flight viewpoint and was pleased to find that under the right conditions a reliable flight could be observed there. The volume of birds passing through is not large (a small fraction of what passes through Bluff Point), but the flight line is consistent and can be observed under good lighting conditions. Between autumns 2020-22 I visited the site 20 times in total and recorded 27 warbler species in morning flight. All but a few of these have been photographed, often poorly! I immediately found mysel
Priorities, man, priorities!
ReplyDeleteGood luck though.
Came across your blog while I was researching Western Willets. Saw some in Denver at Smith Lake, Washington Park. They are on their way from the Gulf Coast/Caribbean area to summer breeding grounds in northern U.S. and parts of Canada.
ReplyDeleteGood luck.