As Anne Marie noted quite a few Blue Jays were migrating throughout the day. May be they got cue from the equinox?? But the best part was while I waiting for my bus around 4.49 pm, I looked up in the sky there were about 80+ migrating Blue Jays. The height at which they were migrating and their wing flutter and the whiteness underside with the sun at low angle had effect of shining stars in the blue sky. They passed overhead as two groups of birds.
Then I also observed two Monarchs fly slight to the southwesterly direction than the blue Jays. Later when I came home and looked up at the map, I found it seems it is better for the monarchs to go more westerly direction than the Blue Jays if they are to reach Mexico! Today on the whole I observed five migrating monarchs. I was most of the time in the lab today with no windows. So there may have been more passing by! Also I did take a short Mundy walk where I found a Palm Warbler and a Tennessee Warbler flying together and followed each other most of the time I watched. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
