Hi all,
I had been thinking that migration seemed pretty sparse this year -- yes, some folks have had very good days but there has a great deal of unfavorable weather (cold, northerly winds) with little activity and on apparent good migration days, like today, many of us are finding the birds just aren't there.
I was going through our old notes (we need to put 22 years of data on eBird, a daunting task...) and found May 13, 1993 from Rock Creek Park DC. I should note these are only birds that Barry and I saw, and do not include other folks' observations. (And in those days there were often only 6-8 observers on a day, if that ...) This is pretty typical of a "good day" from that era. Of course we also had quiet outings, but even these seemed to have more birds than nowadays.
migrants of interest:
Warblers (20 species):
ca 40 Yellow-rumps
4 Black and Whites
8 Black-throated Blues
4 Black-throated Greens
15 Blackpolls
10 Redstarts
8 Parulas
20 Ovenbirds
6 Bay-breasteds
4 Chestnut-sideds
15 Yellowthroats
12 Northern Waterthrushes
5 Magnolias
2 Blackburnians
1 Blue-winged
1 Nashville
1 Tennessee
1 Kentucky
1 Worm-eating
1 MOURNING
Others:
2 Solitary Sandpipers
4 Yellow-billed Cuckoos
8 Acadian Flycatchers
1 Traill's Flycatcher (silent)
20 Scarlet Tanagers
20 Red-eyed Vireos
4 White-eyed Vireos
6 Swainson's Thrushes
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
3 Baltimore Orioles
Present but not enumerated: Wood-pewee, Great Crested FC, Wood Thrush
Gail Mackiernan & Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD
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