Today from noon to 12:20 hundreds of birds moved rapidly through my yard at tree top level. It had been raining for about an hour and the calls of Eastern Kingbirds alerted me to the odd event. Hundreds of Robins, 14+ Eastern Kingbirds , 5-6 Emidonax flycatchers, 10+ Orioles, Blue Jays, one Mourning Dove, a Downy Woodpecker, 2 Northern Flickers, several vireos and several warblers moved by in this 20 minute period. All were high in the trees (about 40+ feet) and didn’t land long enough to identify most of them. And then they were gone and the hinterland was quiet again. Not really sure what was happening as early and late migrants were mingled together but assuredly something drove them southbound.
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