Cape Island--Higbees Beach SWA, Cape May, Aug 19, 2011 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Overnight storms rattled Cape May on and off for several hours and it was tipping down pretty heavily at 07:00 when our walk was due to start. We sat it out a while and blue skies arrived - the walk was on! Perhaps predictably, it didn't look as though we had a morning flight on our hands, but we still had a nice run of birds and some good looks. Our ending at the Morning Flight area was perhaps the highlight as we watched Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers, House Wrens and several warblers feeding actively in the trees.
41 species (+1 other taxa)
Double-crested Cormorant 16
Osprey 1
Semipalmated Plover 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 12
Laughing Gull 20
Herring Gull (American) 2
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 1
Mourning Dove 4
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 4
Eastern Kingbird 45
White-eyed Vireo 6
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 8
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 4
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 15
Carolina Chickadee 4
Carolina Wren 8
House Wren 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 10
American Robin 20
Gray Catbird 10
European Starling 20
Cedar Waxwing 2
Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush 1
Black-and-white Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 2
American Redstart 4
Prairie Warbler 3
Northern Cardinal 10
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)
