Among other things (they found 6 white-faced storm-petrels), birders on
a pelagic cruise off Massachusetts witnessed a flock of 62 Hudsonian
godwits headed south, about a hundred miles off Nantucket on 9/4 (see
the Seabirds list for more details. A photo is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtrimble/3888764888/sizes/l/ .
One of the reasons we see few of these in Ohio is that they move in a
narrow path north through the prairie states in the spring, and another
almost as narrow to the east coast from the Arctic before they fly as
many as 5000 miles non-stop over the Atlantic to South America. Wishing
them a nice tail-wind,
Bill Whan
Columbus

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