Thursday morning was full of birds. Friday still active. This morning they were, except for Phoebe or two and a few Yellowthroats, all gone. Guess they were just pass-throughs on their way south.
Mike Bottini writes to ask about Monarch migration in these parts. Of course, I missed a couple of weeks in September but this was, I would say, as poor a Monarch migration as I have ever witnessed. Apparently it was the same elsewhere on the East Coast. Wha' happened?
On a more positive note, Ellen Stahl reports that, for the second year in a row, she is again host to a Rufous (or, at any rate, Selasaphorus) Hummingbird at lest since late August. The odds of another of these Western hummers finding their way to Sag Harbor are small enough but two years in a row cannot be a crap shoot! The likelihood is that this is the same bird who, after last year's excellent reception, simply decided to return. Remarkable as it may seem, such feats of navigation are well within the powers of the hummingbirds tiny brain!
Eric Salzman
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