An end to the rain, but with south-west winds still holding sway, things were a little quiet at first. Shorebirds are mostly gone now, but ducks replace them on the deepening ponds, while sparrows are replacing warblers in the marsh. Some nice parties of Swamp Sparrows today and a good raptor migration building up. Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Blue Jays moving too. Karl was shapr to spot two Lesser Black-backed Gulls a split second before they decided to leave!
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Pt.
Observation date: 10/6/10
Number of species: 59
Canada Goose 12
Mute Swan 6
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 15
American Wigeon 80
Mallard 55
Blue-winged Teal 6
Northern Shoveler 12
Green-winged Teal 6
Ruddy Duck 3
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Double-crested Cormorant 35
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 4
Turkey Vulture 6
Osprey 8
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 12
Cooper's Hawk 10
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 3
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Sanderling 15
Laughing Gull 6
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull (American) 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Royal Tern 12
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Northern Flicker 15
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 150
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 6
Tree Swallow 1000
Carolina Chickadee 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 2
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 10
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 60
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 50
Palm Warbler (Western) 10
Common Yellowthroat 10
Swamp Sparrow 30
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 4
Red-winged Blackbird 75
Brown-headed Cowbird 20
American Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
