I counted 1.5 million robins in a day during autumn migration at Cape May. And that was just during the daylight. |
People get a lot of 'wow' here. You can see a sky so crowded with swallows, it reduces the amount of sunlight coming to the earth. By late October, the sea roils with waves of scoters going by and the counts have been in excess of 45,000 a day. You don't see much of this anymore. This is the way North America used to be. |
There was no birding before the binocular. There was simply ornithology. |