This is an unusual Chimney Rock Hawkwatch report due to unusual circumstances. Simon Lane texted the results to mocosocoBirds and they were formatted loosely for this post.

11.00-12.00
Brant 385 + Long-tailed Duck !!!
Bald Eagle 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
White-winged Crossbill x 6
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Common Raven 3
Herring Gull 2
Pine Siskin 38
Conditions: SW 3. Cloud 90 flight 2 temp 48
12.00-1.00
Red-shouldered Hawk 3
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
1.00-2.00
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper’s Hawk 1
2.00-2.30
Brant 39
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Conditions same
Observers – Simon 11-12.15 Simon + Jeff Ellerbusch 12.15-2.35
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While observing the sky in Somerset County this morning, Jeff Ellerbusch photographed various groups of migrating Brant. He used these photos to come up with as accurate a total as possible of 697 Brant in a span of 53 minutes, a remarkable number.

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We remain without electrical power in Morris Township and in most other townships in Morris and Somerset Counties. Driving in the immediate areas of Morris, Mendham, Harding and Randolph Townships one is struck with the magnitude and destruction of what is being called the worst storm to hit New Jersey in recorded history. And this is inland. Our thoughts go out to the people of the devastated Jersey coast with hopes that they can recover some semblance of normalcy in the future.

Lines at gasoline stations were absurd today. I don’t recall anything like this since the oil embargo of 1973.