Twenty-five mph winds following a night of northwest winds means there were a lot of fast-moving birds at CHC WMA this morning. Though perched birds were scarce, what awed the group was the sheer number of birds zooming by, especially Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers. One find among the many sparrows was a first-year White-crowned Sparrow showing the brown-striped head of a young bird instead of the black-and-white striped head of an adult. White-crowned Sparrows are uncommon to fairly common fall migrants through Cape May; a small number of birds often winter along the NJ coast, with most birds traveling farther south. Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Deb Payson, Shaun & Cindy Bamford, and Joe Demko.
43 species (+2 other taxa)
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 7
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Herring Gull (American) 2
Mourning Dove 25
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 30
Merlin 1
Eastern Phoebe 7
Blue Jay 25
American Crow 24
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 40
Cedar Waxwing 4
Palm Warbler 20
Palm Warbler (Western) 30
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 10
Pine Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 200
Eastern Towhee 2
Chipping Sparrow 4
Field Sparrow 3
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 15
White-throated Sparrow 10
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
American Goldfinch 11
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