[The dog ate my checklist. This is is not a staged photo. My Chessie pup Daniel Boone took exception to me tracking down an interesting call note in the yard (turned out to be White-crowned Sparrow), came in the dog door and decided the checklist I was working on was just too absurdedly long to be true.]
Observations of note bolded
Observations of note bolded
Location: Cape May
Observation date: 10/29/10
Notes: New Jersey Audubon/CMBO's Autumn Weekend. List represents all species seen by all observers Friday October 29 through Sunday October 31 in Cape May County, mainy Cape Island, with exception of Hooded Merganser (apparently only at Brig, Atlantic County) and Sandhill Crane (apparently only Dividing Creek, Cumberland County.
Number of species: 206
Number of species: 206
Snow Goose X
Brant X
Cackling Goose X from Morning Flight
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
Tundra Swan X Flock over hawk watch Sunday
Wood Duck X
Gadwall X
Eurasian Wigeon X Lighthouse Pond
American Wigeon X
American Black Duck X
Mallard X
Blue-winged Teal X
Northern Shoveler X
Northern Pintail X
Green-winged Teal X
Redhead X Lighthouse Pond
Ring-necked Duck X
Greater Scaup X Seawatch
Lesser Scaup X Seawatch
King Eider X Sunset Beach
Common Eider X Seawatch and Cape May Point
Harlequin Duck X Seawatch
Surf Scoter X
White-winged Scoter X
Black Scoter X
Long-tailed Duck X Seawatch
Bufflehead X Seawatch
Hooded Merganser X Brigantine
Red-breasted Merganser X
Ruddy Duck X
Wild Turkey X Across from Hidden Valley
Red-throated Loon X
Common Loon X
Pied-billed Grebe X
Horned Grebe X Back Bay
Red-necked Grebe X Seawatch
Northern Gannet X
Brown Pelican X
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Cormorant X
American Bittern X
Great Blue Heron X
Great Egret X
Snowy Egret X
Green Heron X Lighthouse Pond
Black-crowned Night-Heron X
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron X
Glossy Ibis X
Black Vulture X
Turkey Vulture X
Osprey X
Bald Eagle X
Northern Harrier X
Sharp-shinned Hawk X
Cooper's Hawk X
Northern Goshawk X High over Beanery
Red-shouldered Hawk X
Broad-winged Hawk X
Red-tailed Hawk X
Golden Eagle X
American Kestrel X
Merlin X
Peregrine Falcon X
Yellow Rail X Cape Island Preserve
Clapper Rail X
Virginia Rail X
Common Moorhen X
American Coot X
Sandhill Crane X By annexing Cumberland county - dividing creek
Black-bellied Plover X
Semipalmated Plover X
Killdeer X
American Oystercatcher X
Greater Yellowlegs X
Willet (Western) X
Lesser Yellowlegs X
Ruddy Turnstone X
Red Knot X
Sanderling X
Semipalmated Sandpiper X
Western Sandpiper X
Least Sandpiper X
Pectoral Sandpiper X
Purple Sandpiper X Cold Spring Jetty
Dunlin X
Stilt Sandpiper X
Short-billed Dowitcher X
Long-billed Dowitcher X
Wilson's Snipe X
American Woodcock X
Bonaparte's Gull X
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Lesser Black-backed Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern X
Common Tern X
Forster's Tern X
Royal Tern X
Black Skimmer X
Parasitic Jaeger X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Common Ground-Dove X Cape May Point State Park by Blake Mathys, later others. 3rd state record.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo X flyby at noon beanery
Barn Owl X
Great Horned Owl X
Barred Owl X
Long-eared Owl X
Northern Saw-whet Owl X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird X
Belted Kingfisher X
Red-bellied Woodpecker X
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker X
Downy Woodpecker X
Hairy Woodpecker X
Northern Flicker X
Eastern Phoebe X
Ash-throated Flycatcher X
Western Kingbird X Higbee
Blue-headed Vireo X
Red-eyed Vireo X
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Fish Crow X
Horned Lark X
Northern Rough-winged Swallow X
Tree Swallow X
Bank Swallow X
Barn Swallow X
Cliff Swallow X
Cave Swallow X hawk watch
Carolina Chickadee X
Tufted Titmouse X
Red-breasted Nuthatch X
White-breasted Nuthatch X
Brown Creeper X
Carolina Wren X
House Wren X
Winter Wren X
Marsh Wren X
Golden-crowned Kinglet X
Ruby-crowned Kinglet X
Eastern Bluebird X
Swainson's Thrush X
Hermit Thrush X 1000's
American Robin X 10,000's
Gray Catbird X
Northern Mockingbird X
Brown Thrasher X
European Starling X
American Pipit X
Cedar Waxwing X
Orange-crowned Warbler X Beanery
Nashville Warbler X
Northern Parula X
Magnolia Warbler X
Black-throated Blue Warbler X
Yellow-rumped Warbler X 10's of thousands
Black-throated Green Warbler X
Pine Warbler X
Palm Warbler X 100's
Blackpoll Warbler X
Black-and-white Warbler X
American Redstart X
Common Yellowthroat X
Yellow-breasted Chat X
Eastern Towhee X
Chipping Sparrow X 1000's
Clay-colored Sparrow X
Field Sparrow X
Vesper Sparrow X
Savannah Sparrow X
Grasshopper Sparrow X
Henslow's Sparrow X Higbee Beach
Le Conte's Sparrow X found DOR
Nelson's Sparrow X
Saltmarsh Sparrow X
Seaside Sparrow X
Fox Sparrow X
Song Sparrow X 1000's or 10000's
Lincoln's Sparrow X
Swamp Sparrow X 1000's or 10000's
White-throated Sparrow X 1000's
White-crowned Sparrow X
Dark-eyed Junco X 1000's or 10000's, mainly Friday
Lapland Longspur X
Scarlet Tanager X Beanery Sunday
Northern Cardinal X
Indigo Bunting X
Dickcissel X
Bobolink X
Red-winged Blackbird X 1000's
Eastern Meadowlark X
Rusty Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Boat-tailed Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird X
Baltimore Oriole X Several at Beanery
Purple Finch X
House Finch X
Pine Siskin X
American Goldfinch X
House Sparrow X
