I got a text message at 6 am from Dave LaPuma saying simply: "Go birding today!"  I guessed that he was at Higbees Beach with the folks who monitor the early-morning flights of warblers and other birds that have just crossed the Bay and are coming into the maritime forests to rest and refuel. 
   And I guessed that his text meant there were birds about.  I guessed right.
   It didn't really seem like a great morning for birding at first; it was gray, foggy, humid;  no wind to speak of let alone that great northwest wind that seems to trigger the migration of raptors and others.  But little by little we began to see that there had been indeed a pretty significant flight of migrating birds overnight.  Joe Smith was today's leader.  Here's a partial list for the morning:
Osprey (abundant)

Peregrine falcon

Merlin

Sharp-shinned hawk

Turkey vulture

Great egret

Tree Swallow

Cormorant

Forsters tern

Royal tern

Belted kingfisher

Eastern kingbird

Common yellowthroat

Black and white warbler

Black-throated blue warbler

Redstart

Philadelphia vireo

Red-eyed vireo

White-eyed vireo

Olive-sided (?) flycatcher

Goldfinch

Robin

Cedar waxwing

Semipalmated plover

Great black backed gull

Herring gull

Gray catbird

Seaside sparrow

Ruby-throated hummingbird