A rather quiet wealk around the State Park, but we staretd very well with a Dickcissel which dropped in from very high overhead, a passing Cattle Egret and a good movement of Blue Jays, with a single jay flock of 147 birds flying around the lighthouse. Also a good raptor movement early on.
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Pt.
Observation date: 9/29/10
Number of species: 59
Mute Swan 10
Wood Duck 4
Gadwall 10
American Wigeon 25
Mallard 20
Blue-winged Teal 15
Northern Shoveler 2
Northern Pintail 4
Green-winged Teal 2
Ruddy Duck 1
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Cattle Egret 1
Osprey 3
Northern Harrier 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 10
Cooper's Hawk 2
American Kestrel 4
Merlin 3
Sora 1
Killdeer 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Wilson's Snipe 2
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull (American) 5
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Royal Tern 6
Black Skimmer 50
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 200
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 6
Tree Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 3
Gray Catbird 12
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 25
Palm Warbler (Western) 1
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Savannah Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Dickcissel 1
Bobolink 6
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
House Sparrow 8
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