Winter Wednesday Wanderings - Wednesday, January 21st, 2014

This week's Winter Wednesday Wanderings walk was another successful adventure.  One of our participants had four life birds on this walk and the Black-headed Gull at the concrete ship (Sunset Beach) just prior to the walk. Today we visited three sites beginning and ending at the Northwood’s Center and traveling to the concrete ship and Two Mile beach. We missed the Black-headed Gull but more than made up for that miss at Two Mile beach. The highlights were good looks at the Harlequin Ducks, Great Cormorants and a close look at a flock of Red Knots.  Leader:  Warren Cairo.

Cape Island--Sunset Beach/Concrete Ship
19 species

Surf Scoter  20
Black Scoter  8
Long-tailed Duck  6
Bufflehead  4
Red-throated Loon  10
Horned Grebe  3
Turkey Vulture  3
Ruddy Turnstone  4
Sanderling  8
Bonaparte's Gull  6
Ring-billed Gull  8
Herring Gull  12
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Forster's Tern  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  5
Mourning Dove  2
Northern Flicker  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  6

Cape May NWR--Two Mile Unit
30 species

Harlequin Duck  2     both females
Surf Scoter  40
Black Scoter  20
Long-tailed Duck  20
Bufflehead  8
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Ruddy Duck  4
Red-throated Loon  12
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  2
Great Cormorant  5
Turkey Vulture  2
American Oystercatcher  5
Black-bellied Plover  2
Ruddy Turnstone  6
Red Knot  40    
Sanderling  20
Dunlin  120
Bonaparte's Gull  2
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  12
Mourning Dove  2
American Crow  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  2
Dark-eyed Junco  1

CMBO Northwood Center
17 species

Mute Swan  2
Mallard  4
Ruddy Duck  5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  8
Downy Woodpecker  2
Tufted Titmouse  2
American Robin  12
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  8
Yellow-rumped Warbler  4
Song Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  6
Northern Cardinal  6
House Finch  10
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  6

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