Fall Migrants at the Rea Farm - Saturday, September 20th, 2014

As one participant put it, there was a Flicker Festival at the Beanery today! Northern Flickers have a wide range, from Alaska to Nicaragua, occupying almost any habitat with trees. The ones from the far north - Canada and Alaska - are highly migratory, traveling east and south by day to get to warmer climes for the winter. Most of the migratory species that we see during the day in Cape May are nocturnal migrants so we don't actually observe any significant portion of their migration though we certainly see the evidence of it during daytime birding. Not so with Northern Flickers which, as diurnal migrants, will be streaming above us in the weeks ahead.  Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, Deb Payson, and Carrie Bell.
39 species

Wood Duck  1
Mallard  10
Double-crested Cormorant  18
Great Egret  1
Osprey  4
Sharp-shinned Hawk  5
Cooper's Hawk  1
Laughing Gull  15
Herring Gull (American)  2
Mourning Dove  35
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  8
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  25
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  3
Philadelphia Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  4
Blue Jay  9
American Crow  8
Fish Crow  3
Tree Swallow  5
Carolina Wren  6
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  9
European Starling  17
Cedar Waxwing  5
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  5
American Redstart  3
Northern Cardinal  7
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Bobolink  2
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Common Grackle  3
Baltimore Oriole  2
House Sparrow  8

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Northern Flicker [Photo by Roger Horn]