Cape May Point - Saturday, December 18, 2010

 [Above, adult, and below, juvenile Red-shouldered Hawks, Cape May Saturday. Photos by Karl Lukens.]


Location: Cape May Point
Observation date: 12/18/10
Notes: CMBO Cape May Point Walk-KL,K&RH,TP,+1.Cldy,30,NNW7. Started
with good raptors, a Red-tail and Red-shouldered Hawk, perched and a
fly-by Coopers Hawk. Finished with 4 Red-shouldered Hawks over the parking
lot. In between, the usual suspects, but some what low on ducks since Lily
Lake was the only really open water,

Number of species: 46

Canada Goose 50
Mute Swan 8
Gadwall 30
American Wigeon 20
Mallard 30
Northern Shoveler 10
Ring-necked Duck 12
Black Scoter 3
Ruddy Duck 5
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 15
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Purple Sandpiper 10
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 5
Carolina Chickadee 8
Tufted Titmouse 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 50
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Fox Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 15
Dark-eyed Junco 5
Northern Cardinal 8
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 10
House Sparrow 15