Hoping light easterly winds on a day in the middle of the migration would offset no recent storms, I spent a couple hours up on "Jeff's Dune" north of the Channel this morning looking for migrating raptors. Only two: a Sharp-shinned Hawk and a Merlin.
There were a few other migrants: 44 Canada Geese, 50 Blue Jays and a Monarch Butterfly. About 40 of the dozens of American Crows seemed to be heading south as well, but who knows. The most common birds in the jack pines were Northern Flickers again, as well as some White-crowned Sparrows.
Seventeen bird species, none out of the ordinary, and this milkweed along the trail back down.
- Ric
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