I hope Paul Lehman doesn't mind my forwarding this message of his from Bird
Chat. As a photographer I am trying to imagine what 150,000 Yellow rumps
over a days time looks like. (Died and gone to heaven! as I used to say.)
Just knowing that someone else got to see it is almost as good as seeing it.
I was in Crane Flat once in Yosemite and had a couple hundred warblers go
through in an hour but I just can't visualize this. Its like a Monet painting
with all these little dabs of yellow bouncing all over.

Jim Rosso
Issaquah
206-392-8440

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:33:32 -0700
From: Paul Lehman <birding at ABA.ORG>
Subject: Cape May 1995 Fallouts

For those interested in the Fall 1995 migration here in Cape May, NJ, to
date, it can be summarized briefly by saying September and early October
were mediocre, probably the result of north to northeast winds following
fronts rather than the preferred northwest. The last half of October,
however, has been excellent for the volume of migrants. (There have been
many more days with west or northwest winds.) Some of the better totals
include 150,000 Yellow-rumped Warblers on one day, 150 Saw-whet Owls banded
in two nights, 100,000 Am. Robins one morning, 1000 kinglets from one spot
in two hours, many thousands of sparrows (mostly White-throated, Swamp, and
Song), a heavy scoter flight of up to 80,000 per day, and a total of 12
Golden Eagles the past several days. Siskins and Evening Grosbeaks have
arrived in numbers the past few days.

--Paul Lehman, Cape May, New Jersey
birding at aba.org

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