Migrants show up, migrants leave... (1 Viewer)

At one of my regular local haunts on Friday, I found a ton of neotropicals: Scarlet Tanager, both Wood and Swainson thrushes, and a dozen species of warblers (the best a female Cape May), along with a Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

Go back out to the same place this morning, and there isn't a single neotropical migrant anywhere which doesn't nest there. I wish I had been there on whichever evening they left-seeing them rise en masse into the twilight before proceeding north to their summer homes. The weather has had a lot of warm southerly winds over the weekend, which probably explains it. I hope we have at least one more wave coming before summer arrives.

You never know what you'll see when you look out the window for birds, especially if you live on a migration route. I'm on a little river, and it makes it a lot of fun.