I second Dave Nutter's description of migration. I was settling down yesterday afternoon just past 4 for some lunch on my deck (in Trumansburg village) when I noticed a warbler flying into some of our goldenrod. I grabbed my bins, and about 45 minutes later, had, more or less in order: Orange-crowned Warbler, along with its congeners Nashville and Tennessee Cape May Warbler 2 Bald Eagles high overhead flying from the NW in a S Easterly direction, followed quickly by 47 Broad-winged Hawks, 2 Red-shouldered Hawks, several Monarch butterflies (quite high), a low-flying Merlin, 2 Ravens, 16 Turkey Vultures, 2 accipiters, and a Northern Harrier. All of these species were following this same bearing. Sometime in this melee a female Scarlet Tanager flew into a nearby tree. There was almost no wind at ground level, but it must have been a pretty steady wind aloft, almost all of the raptors were soaring. A few of the Broad-wingeds did some gyring but most flew directly through at varying altitudes. The two times I've driven to a hawk watch spot specifically for this species, I've had 6 and 8 of these small buteos, so you really never know! For details on my day's sightings, the ebird list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S94759958 Good birding, Jared Dawson Trumansburg
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