This morning from 7:10-7:22, I watched a major flight of robins heading more or less south/southeast.  I was at Brown Station Rd (at the County landfill) and you could not miss it.  I had just dropped off my trash there and was trying to look at the geese on the pond but the light was pretty low.  The flight may have begun before I noticed, since the light was so low light at first and the geese were so noisy (counted 220).  The robins were merely impressive at first, but it quickly ramped up to spectacular!

They may have been roosting somewhere nearby, just a guess.  I estimate they were flying only about 300-400 feet high as they passed over me.  The flock was very loose and seemed to be fanning out over about a quarter mile width.  It was so amazing trying to count; I held my bins in one place and counted the number that passed my field of view in one minute (using my watch), and counted groups of hundreds.  I missed some that I could hear passing behind me (out of view), but I have no estimate for how many I missed.

7:10-7:11 ~ 700
7:11-7:12 ~ 1,200
7:12-7:13 ~ 1,700
7:13-7:14 ~ 2,500  This was the peak, and it got hard to count, requiring considerable effort, but it did not seem to exceed this level
7:14-7:18 ~ 2,500 per minute!
7:18-7:19 ~ 2,100
7:19-7:20 ~ 1,700
7:20-7:21 ~ 1,300
7:21-7:22 ~ 900

Then it tapered off very rapidly and I stopped counting.   Total was 22,100!

Cheers-
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD