I was there that day. It was pretty amazing.


Daryl Olson
Catonsville, MD


----- Original Message ----
> From: Rick Sussman <>
> To: 
> Sent: Sat, October 24, 2009 9:01:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] major morning robin flight
> 
> Morning all,
> This posting reminded me of something that I just read in the new (October 2009) 
> issue of Winging It (American Bird Assoc. newsletter). In it Michael O'Brien, 
> previously of Montgomery County, writes an article about what he likes about 
> living and birding in Cape May, N.J. He recalls a weekend in early November 1999 
> that locals refer to as "The Robin Flight", when they had a HUGE overnight 
> migration of robins, ending the following day with an estimated 1.25 MILLION 
> birds passing through! And this was just the robins, which he says was an 
> underestimate, based on radar images of the nocturnal flight, which showed many 
> more birds passing overhead that night than they counted the next day.
> 
> Amazing!!
> 
> Rick Sussman
> Woodbine,MD