How did you come to that estimate? (Its few hundred bytes stack memory, even on nowadays very capable mobile devices. Even more so if looking at the pjsua's "default" video codecs configurations.)

I was driving by and had no time to stop, but while sitting at a red light I estimated about 5,000 birds swarming about and covering the trees adjacent to the marsh with the Osprey platform in it (NW of the intersection). There were some European Starling involved but they appeared to be in the minority. Mainly Common Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds.

Excerpt: "To get a better handle on the number of turkeys in the wild - one estimate put it at 40,000 about four years ago - the DEP last year began a survey that seeks input from the agency's staff and the public. The agency wants reports of wild turkey sightings, especially hens with poults, as the young are known, between June 1 and Aug. 31. ...

I estimated 1200 Herring Gulls, 35 Great Black-backed Gulls and 400 Ring-billed Gulls. Approximately 300 Canada Geese were present on the lawn and shore. On the Western empidonax front: a "Western" Flycatcher was banded last fall at Manomet Center of Conservation Science's banding station.

There were an estimated 460 Barn Swallows. Other counts were loon sp (1), Least Sandpiper (1), BG Gnatcatcher (2), Chimney Swift (20), Cedar Waxwing (80), E Kingbird (2), Com Grackle (12), RW Blackbird (56), Bobolink (48). Northerly winds continue tomorrow. Steve Mayo Bethany

It was getting dark and the count was estimated as 50 to 80 birds. Paul and Douglas Carrier

I counted 649 + an additional estimated 300 that flew west before I started counting.. . The nearly 1000 Ring-billeds were together.? There were probably 500 Herring Gulls and just a few Great Black-backed, but they were mostly on the outer bars to?the east and west, and not with the ring-bills..?I've not noticed this before,?

This, in my opinion, is a low ball estimate. Many of the birds had already flown over the river when I arrived. I actually walked out into the corn fields (plenty of ears of corn left in the fields) and was surrounded by blackbirds that blanketed the ground. It was an incredible (and unique) feeling to be in such a position.

DICKCISSEL and YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT seen again in the brushy dump area at the end of the parking lot on the East Beach side of the park.We estimate seeing 50+ Monarch Butterflies in this same area as well.

I'd estimate that I ran into about 120 Chimney Swifts between Waterbury and Seymour, most seen while driving on Rte 8 itself. >From Nick Bonomo: 5/10 - Waterbury, Chase River Rd -- 6 CLIFF SWALLOWS Nick Bonomo Wallingford, CT http://shorebirder.blogspot.com/