Kick Off Your Year List - January 1st, 2014

See View from the Cape for highlights and photos by Mike Crewe.  Leaders:  Mike Crewe, Kathy & Roger Horn, Steve Weis, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Chris Marks, Catherine Busch, Janet Crawford, Karl Lukens, Chris Hajduk, and Joe Demko.

Combined list for the following locations:  Cape May Point, Cape May NWR--Two Mile Unit, Sunset Lake, Nummy Island, and Stone Harbor Point.
75 species

Brant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Gadwall

Eurasian Wigeon

American Wigeon

American Black Duck
Mallard

Northern Shoveler

Redhead

Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

King Eider

Common Eider

Surf Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Black Scoter

Long-tailed Duck

Bufflehead

Hooded Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Red-throated Loon

Common Loon

Horned Grebe

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Cormorant 

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
American Oystercatcher
Semipalmated Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin
Purple Sandpiper

Bonaparte's Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Rock Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Snowy Owl
Rufous Hummingbird
Peregrine Falcon
American Crow

Carolina Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Carolina Wren

American Robin

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Snow Bunting 

Yellow-rumped Warbler
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow (Ipswich)
Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Northern Cardinal 

Painted Bunting

Brown-headed Cowbird

House Finch

House Sparrow