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Below is a note from Karl and Judy Lukens about the CMBO Sunset Birding at the Meadows walk which is held on Friday evenings.

"Walk moved to the CM State Park from the (closed) TNC SCMM ("Meadows"). Beautiful evening with good shore bird and duck variety. Fly by Caspian and multiple Royal Terns, but smaller terns were scarce. "

SPECIES SEEN ~ CMBO TRIP

9/21/2007 ~ in Cape May Point ~ New Jersey Checklist ~ 39 seen

Great Blue Heron 1
Mute Swan 6
Canada Goose 40
American Wigeon 8
Gadwall 3
Green-winged Teal 6
Mallard 20
Blue-winged Teal 12
Northern Shoveler 15
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 1
Merlin 1
American Oystercatcher 2
Semipalmated Plover 6
Killdeer 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Sanderling 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Least Sandpiper 8
Pectoral Sandpiper 6
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Great Black-backed Gull 20
American Herring Gull 5
Laughing Gull 40
Caspian Tern 1
Royal Tern 8
Black Skimmer 500
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 6
Northern Mockingbird 1
American Crow 1
European Starling 10
House Sparrow 10
American Goldfinch 2
Palm Warbler 4
Northern Cardinal 1

I was actually intending to fish this evening, but hordes of people at my two favorite spots in Stone Harbor made me think better of it, so I spun the truck around and headed back into the thunderstorms approaching from the west. About a quarter mile south of the free bridge to Nummy Island, a group of birds on my left (ocean side) caught my attention. Biggish, mostly grayish, but there were a few bigger, buffy-brownish ones. . . hmmm.

I flipped the truck around, and sure enough, there were the 50 or so Western Willets from a couple nights ago, and with them, 9 Marbled Godwits. And a Tri-colored Heron, which gave me pause for a moment as I compared it to the willets and godwits. It didn't look big enough, so here's a question to ponder: how much bigger than a Marbled Godwit is a Tri-colored Heron?

The answer is, hardly bigger at all. Both birds weigh in at 13 ounces, according to Sibley, though the heron is 8 inches longer than the godwit's 18". Who would have thunk. . .

If you bird Stone Harbor, check the salt marsh pans on Nummy around high tide, and the flats/mussel beds from the free bridge beginning about 2 hours after high tide, as more habitat is exposed and birds of interest shift from their high-tide roost spots to the feeding areas near the channels exposed by the falling tide.

In the absence of any sort of front, the morning's birding from the hawk watch at Cape May Point State Park was slowish by front-standards, but who can complain about a half-dozen American Kestrels in view at once, plucking dragonflies from the sky? And then there was the Merlin which selected a juvenile Semi-palmated Sandpiper from the shorebirds on Bunker Pond, pursued it relentlessly, and plucked it from the sky. Vince Elia pointed out that it was probably one of the slower, less agile semi-palms, and I agree - at least, it was slower and less agile than the Merlin!

Considering I was only out for about an hour and forty minuets, I'd say I had a pretty good morning. Take a look at this list below, I think you'll agree.

One of the highlights of the morning were the three male Cape May warblers flitting in a tree at the first "shrub island" in the first field at Higbee. While at first glance and given the unfavorable winds, Higbee seemed to be quite dead. That is until you actually stopped and listened. There were numbers of zeeps, zips and such going over head. One of those days that might have been better to be at the Morning Flight Project. But, if you actually tried looking deeper in the woods there were flocks of warblers and vireos moving deep in the forest. This made the birding quite tough and I suspect many folks walked away feeling that there were very few birds around, when in fact, the opposite was true.

The best spot (for me and a few others at least) was the first bit of woods on the right hand side just into the second field. It was on my way back to the parking lot that I happened upon a nice flock moving through these woods. In evidence was a Philadelphia vireo, Blackburnian, Black-throated blue, and Blackpoll warblers, American redstarts and a few Red-eyed vireos amongst other species. All in all, a fine day in the field; for a day when I started out questioning myself for why I was bothering to get out of bed. I'm glad I did.

On a quick side note, CMBO's Northwood Center woods continue to delight members and customers alike. Today there have been at least two Cape May warblers viewed and one hanging around being seen readily. Also a Philadelphia vireo, Blackburnian and Tennessee warblers along with Northern Parula and a few Red-breasted nuthatches.

The moral of this story, just because the winds don't seem to be right for migration, doesn't mean that the birding will be poor. Sometimes you just have to look a little deeper in the woods to find the birds you seek.

As usual, the list of species seen this morning is below.


Location: Higbee Beach
Observation date: 9/21/07
Number of species: 43

Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 7
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 9
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 28
Carolina Chickadee 5
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 8
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Veery 1
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 7
European Starling 25
Cedar Waxwing 47
Northern Parula 14
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 8
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 6
Black-and-white Warbler 10
American Redstart 2
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 7
Northern Cardinal 8
Indigo Bunting 6
Bobolink 59
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 3
American Goldfinch 1

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I've been in the north the past couple days, as in north of Cape May. Wednesday I had the pleasure of hawk-watching from Montclair much of the day, with the ace counter there, namely Bruce McWhorter, and the ace-est of counters and morale-boosters there, namely Else Greenstone, with her husband Wayne and a host of other NJAS'ers. The flight was, to put it politely, on the slow side, but we did observe passage Sharp-shinneds, Broad-wingeds, harriers, kestrels, and the local red-tails and coops. Montclair had a 4,000+ day Sunday, but the east winds have pushed the broad-winged flight to western sites.

Somebody asked me about the whole hawk-watching business - I guess it is a bit puzzling at times, getting excited about infrequent pin-dot views of migrating raptors. And then there are the micro-dots and nano-dots. . .

It either hooks you or it doesn't, I guess. Those dots are raptors, the kings and queens of the sky, and yeah they're far away, but they have also come from far away, and have far to go. To one high sharpie I called out for the benefit of the crowd, "Where'd you come from?" And then joked that it answered: "Northern Ontario." Which very well might be true.

Our current weather, with the stationary high, has produced somewhat stationary birds, and only good birding, rather than exceptional.

Karl Lukens reports from Hidden Valley:

"Slow land birding this morning with highlight being the Black-throated Blue Warbler, a couple of Red-eyed Vireos and Field Sparrows, and brief looks at 2 Green Herons. We do need another cold front."

Karl's Hidden Valley list:

SPECIES SEEN ~ CMBO TRIP
to 9/20/2007 ~ in Hidden Valley ~ New Jersey Checklist ~ 34 seen

Great Egret 5
Green Heron 2
Canada Goose 100
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 6
American Herring Gull 1
Laughing Gull 3
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 10
Tree Swallow 8
Barn Swallow 2
Cedar Waxwing 6
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 1
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 8
American Robin 8
Carolina Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 10
European Starling 15
Red-eyed Vireo 3
American Goldfinch 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1
Field Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Bobolink 8
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 2

Bert Hixon remarks of Cape May Point today:

"The highlight was a (possible American) Crow killing and decapitating a peep of undetermined species in Bunker Pond. Very few terns, both Teal, N. Shoveler, lots of A. Kestrels and Osprey about, though."

Finally, this just in from Brent Burke, one of our friends at The Nature Conservancy:

"The Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge will be closed at minimum through the end of the week and there is a possibility that the closure may last through a portion of next week."

About 25 eager people gathered for this morning's Higbee Beach walk - not to mention the 40 or so other birders wandering about hopefully apart from our group. We encountered the same group of gents with scopes that were spotted during our workshop over the weekend - they were from Sweden, seemed very keen, and their assessment matched mine: very slow day.

Not empty, just slow. Warblers flew over the first hour, but little touched down in the woods, and mid-way through the walk we sort of shifted gear to field identification of nuts and fruits - the botanical kind, I mean. Walnuts, hickories, persimmons, sassafras berries, grapes, rose hips - those things that birds and other wildlife depend on, and that are so abundant at Higbee.

A female Pintail that had appeared on Bunker Pond since yesterday was being pointed out by Anna Harris, one of CMBO's interpreters, when I wandered over to the hawk watch after the walk to deliver some materials.

In the t0tally-useless-to-you-but-still-interesting department, I've added three yard birds at my home along the bayshore, 10 miles north of Cape May, since yesterday: Eastern Screech Owl whistling away last night in response to my neighbor yelling at his kids, plus a female Black-throated Blue Warbler this morning, and a Purple Finch "pinking" overhead. Six months here (and almost never actually here at home), I'm inching toward the 100 mark, though numbers mean so much less than birds.

No cold fronts on the horizon, and tomorrow I'll be hawk-watching in north Jersey from NJAS's lookout in Montclair, where, I hope, at least I'll get a hug from Else Greenstone, which nearly everyone who is a return customer to Montclair gets, and which is perhaps the best form of "Vitamin E." Today's list from Higbee is below.

Location: Higbee Beach
Observation date: 9/18/07
Notes: CMBO's Tuesday Higbee Beach walk. Cloudy, winds generally northeast. Figure 100 unidentified warblers overhead, mostly 7-8 a.m.
Number of species: 35
Mallard 6
Osprey 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 10
Broad-winged Hawk 1
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Laughing Gull 5
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 20
Eastern Kingbird 5
Red-eyed Vireo 5
American Crow 10
Tree Swallow 50
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 5
Red-breasted Nuthatch 10
Carolina Wren 5
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 20
Cedar Waxwing 20
Tennessee Warbler 1
American Redstart 10
Common Yellowthroat 5
Scarlet Tanager 1
Field Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 10
Bobolink 25
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
American Goldfinch 5
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Will Kerling, Associate Naturalist, sent the following report from the Butterfly and Dragonfly Walk in Cape May Point from Sunday, September 16, 2007, 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon. This walk is held every Sunday through October 14, and meets at the Pavilion Circle Gardens in Cape May Point - more information under Programs on this web site.

Butterfly List:
Black Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Orange Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
White M Hairstreak
Gray Hairstreak
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Pearl Crescent
American Lady
Painted Lady
Red Admiral
Common Buckeye
Monarch
Silver-Spotted Skipper
Horace's Duskywing
Least Skipper
Fiery Skipper
Sachem
Zabulon Skipper

Dragonfly List:
Black Saddlebags
Eastern Pondhawk

Damselfly List:
Bluet species

We saw Red-breasted Nuthatches, Common Yellowthroat, Sharp-shinned Hawks and Osprey. It was a great sunny, breezy morning with thirteen people (3 members, 6 non-members and 4 life members) in attendance, some from Delaware and New York. The White M Hairstreak was a great find in an urban setting, nectaring on sedum."

Answer:

Sunrise to ~ 10:00 a.m: Higbee Beach for passerines. Consider a mid-morning shift to the Beanery or Hidden Valley.

10:30-noon: Cape May Point State Park Hawk Watch.

Lunch: optional.

Afternoon: Stone Harbor Point and Nummy Island (or stay at the state park and bird the ponds and the rips, as well as the hawk watch).

That's pretty much what we did for the third day of the CMBO Fall Migration workshop, and since we totalled roughly 110 species today while making absolutely no effort to specifically run up a big species list, I reckon it's a pretty good plan.

It used to be I'd have worked the TNC Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge, a.k.a. the Meadows, into the mandatory hit list of locations, but the meadows are still recovering from restoration work and seem not to be attracting and holding birds the way we would all like. Give it a year for the vegetation and invertebrate fauna to build back up, and I'm guessing the meadows will be better than ever. However, if the passerine flight seems iffy, or if you're going to bird until dusk, definitely consider the meadows for your morning or late afternoon/evening plans.

This whole discussion sends one ruminating on what makes a good day of birding. My view on that subject is to pursue quality views of quality species, hopefully with some interesting behaviors thrown in, plus an overall abundance of birds and some understanding of what they are doing and why. All that trumps some dumb big daylist total.

Let's start with Higbee. There is a certain tension at Higbee in the morning during a potential flight day. Part of it comes from the simple question, can I find a parking spot? At 7:00 a.m. today there were easily 100 cars there, and the first field was ringed with birders, reminding me of photos of British twitchers surrounding some American rarity in the Scillies.

Speaking of Brits, there was a group of perhaps 12 birders all armed with scopes at Higbee who I didn't have the opportunity to speak to, but my group asked me about them. Why do they all have scopes at Higbee (where, generally, the birds don't sit for such equipment)? I answered that the gentlemen were probably European, they were probably very serious, and probably knew more about the birds they were here to see than I did. And that I was being a kind of lazy leader today, and should have had my scope along in case we needed it .

Another tension at Higbee comes from the question, "Should I be here now, or over in the corner of the second field, or up on the dike, or maybe we should have stayed in the parking lot where the two Cape May Warblers perched first thing?" You always feel like you're never in the right place, especially when the morning flight is still going on and you're resigned to trying to convince the group that flyover warblers still provide good views, saying things like "See, that female Black-and-white really looks white-headed, doesn't it?" All the while you yourself are salivating for something, anything, even just a redstart, to perch somewhere where you can clearly see it.

I don't know the answer for how best to cover Higbee, and I do know the answer changes day to day and whether or not you get it right is mainly luck, but I think the best plan is enjoy where you are, cover the key areas slowly and thoroughly, and recognize that no person or party is seeing everything. After our great views of Cape May's namesake warbler in the lot today, we struggled until almost 9:00 a.m. before we hit a feeding pocket, and begin to hit the quality views again: male and female Blackburnian, a Bay-breasted still with some bay, a Wilson's, both Black-throated's, Northern Parula's and others. Luckily, raptors (albeit mostly sharp-shinneds) were constant.

Some of us saw bird's that others, mainly due to unlucky positioning, did not: the Philadelphia Vireo, "Traill's" Flycatcher, and others. It's part of the game. But the quality views ruled.

Today's hawk flight was very different than yesterday's, a normal happening the second day after the front. Falcon's ruled yesterday, accipiters and buteos today - a nice change of pace.

Stone Harbor in the afternoon was marvelous - 8 Marbled Godwits, 50 Western Willets, and a host of other shorebirds. Try the south base of the free bridge as the tide falls and the mudflats and mussel beds are exposed, and roosting birds return to feeding areas.

About the interesting behaviors: two adult Bald Eagles dueling at the hawk watch, oystercatchers predictably returning to the mussel beds, Tree Swallows balling up at the passing of a Northern Harrier, and perhaps funnest of all, a non-avian sighting: a roosting Red Bat at Stone Harbor point, which, we all agreed, was colored exactly like some of the dead leaves in the Bayberry it chose for the day.

Our lists from Higbee and Stone Harbor are below, Jessie Barry's hawk flight numbers and Sam Galick's morning flight totals will be up on "View from the Field" soon.

Location: Higbee Beach
Observation date: 9/16/07
Notes: CMBO's fall migration workshop, day 3. front passed yesterday, winds northeast at dawn. Morning flight early, scattered groups of warbers et al later in the morning
Number of species: 72
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 1
Osprey 5
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 10
Cooper's Hawk 2
American Kestrel 5
Merlin 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Laughing Gull 10
Forster's Tern 5
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 20
Willow Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Veery 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 40
Tennessee Warbler 1
Northern Parula 5
Yellow Warbler 5
Magnolia Warbler 2
Cape May Warbler 10
Black-throated Blue Warbler 5
Black-throated Green Warbler 5
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 5
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 5
Black-and-white Warbler 10
American Redstart 20
Northern Waterthrush 5
Common Yellowthroat 5
Wilson's Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Field Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 5
Blue Grosbeak 1
Bobolink 25
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
Baltimore Oriole 5
Purple Finch 1
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 10
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Location: Nummy Island
Observation date: 9/16/07
Notes: CMBO's fall migration workshop, from 2nd ave and the base of the free bridge, falling tide 2 hr past high.
Number of species: 42
Double-crested Cormorant 150
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 10
Little Blue Heron 2
Tricolored Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 5
Osprey 10
Northern Harrier 5
Black-bellied Plover 25
Semipalmated Plover 5
American Oystercatcher 20
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Lesser Yellowlegs 20
Willet 50 all western
Marbled Godwit 8
Ruddy Turnstone 10
Red Knot 20
Sanderling 25
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
Stilt Sandpiper 5
Short-billed Dowitcher 10
Laughing Gull 25
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Caspian Tern 2
Royal Tern 25
Common Tern 25
Forster's Tern 5
Black Skimmer 50
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 10
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 5
Tree Swallow 1000
Barn Swallow 5
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 10
Yellow Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 5
Song Sparrow 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 1
House Sparrow 5
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Just received a call from Gail Dwyer who reported four Tri-colored herons, 2 Pied-billed grebes, a load of Willets and 6 Marbled godwits from Nummy Island. Keep these birds in mind if you are thinking about joining the CMBO Sunset Birding at Stone Harbor Point walk at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. This is definitly a walk that anyone who comes to Cape may should go on.

I've also head that there was a Western Kingbird around today. Originally seen by Richard Crossley at the Cape May point State Park. The bird was relocated at the Beanery later in the morning. No further word about this species.

Additionally, there was an Olive-sided flycatcher seen on the CMBO Villas WMA walk today. again, no further word.

I spent some time up on the dike with a couple of WBS team mates (Jared and Zach Parks) who were visiting for this great birding weekend. While with the winds having switched to NNE the main portion of the songbird flight was behind the dike which makes identification even more of a challenge, for me at least. There were a good number of birds flying past though. One highlight was a imm. Red-headed woodpecker which flew past and an adult Bald eagle when we stepped out of the car.

After a while we decided to take a quick jaunt around Hidden Valley before I headed into work at the Northwood Center. We figured that since Higbee was loaded with birders we might have some luck at the "valley." Well I was wrong in my assumption, we did have some good birds but diversity and numbers were not stellar. Really I was hoping that a Connecticut warbler would have popped up in front of us to give a show. Still looking though.

The second list you'll see is the list we had from Walking around Cape May Point on Friday morning. Since the store has been so busy I haven't had a chance to post any of the sightings I've had on my walks. There were not huge numbers of birds around and not many migrants around. We mostly tallied resident birds but those count too. The best part of the morning for me was the fact that we stepped out of the car and put bins around out necks to have a Cape May warbler drop into a cedar tree over head. We didn't get good looks but enough to id the bird as a cape may.

The third list is from yesterday morning at the hawk watch. Since I didn't have any takers for my Birding Optics walk I spent a little while birding and chatting with friends. The best bird of the morning yesterday was a Clay-colored sparrow that Jessie picked up sitting at the top of a little dead shrub right in front of the hawk watch platform. Clay-colors are such great looking birds. Every time I see one (not often enough) I'm reminded of my days in Wisconsin at school.

Well, I think that there has been another pretty good hawk flight today. Haven't been outside to verify. I'd imagine since there were a pretty good number of hawks tooling about from the dike. Not sure of the weather for the rest of the week. Last I saw not much to get excited about. If you'd like to be sure, check out the Birding Forecast.

Location: Cape May - Hidden Valley Ranch
Observation date: 9/16/07
Number of species: 37

Turkey Vulture 2
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 3
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 31
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 12
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 9
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 3
Cedar Waxwing 40
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 5
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 5
American Redstart 7
Northern Waterthrush 4
Common Yellowthroat 6
Canada Warbler 1
Field Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4
Bobolink X
Common Grackle 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
American Goldfinch 1

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Location: Cape May Point
Observation date: 9/14/07
Number of species: 37

Canada Goose 6
Mute Swan 10
Mallard 12
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Little Blue Heron 1
Osprey 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Laughing Gull 40
Royal Tern 5
Forster's Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 47
Mourning Dove 36
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 15
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 6
Carolina Chickadee 8
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 9
Veery 1
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 3
European Starling 7
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
American Redstart 5
Northern Cardinal 7
Bobolink 35
Red-winged Blackbird 7
Common Grackle 8
Purple Finch 1
House Finch 16
House Sparrow 26

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Location: Cape May Bird Observatory Hawk Watch Site
Observation date: 9/15/07
Number of species: 25

Mute Swan 3
Northern Shoveler 4
Green-winged Teal 8
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 1
Osprey 3
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 20
Least Sandpiper 15
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 25
Royal Tern 12
Forster's Tern 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Tree Swallow 15
Barn Swallow 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Yellow Warbler 3
Clay-colored Sparrow 1

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