Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

The raptor show continues on our Wednesday wander through the Point. We had an opportunity to carefully compare and contrast Sharp-shinned and Cooper’s Hawks as well as identifying the differences in falcons in flight. Leaders: Brett Ewald, Chris Marks, Catherine Busch, Mary Watkins, and Kirsten Fuller.
55 species

Mute Swan  19
Mallard  8
Surf Scoter  2
Black Scoter  3
Double-crested Cormorant  12
Great Egret  1
Tricolored Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  5
Northern Harrier  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk  33
Cooper's Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  1
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  2
Parasitic Jaeger  7
Laughing Gull  42
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull (American)  6
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  14
Common Tern  38
Forster's Tern  52
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  8
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3
American Kestrel  8
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  3
Tree Swallow  125
Carolina Chickadee  4
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  3
Gray Catbird  2
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  13
Cedar Waxwing  12
Common Yellowthroat  1
Cape May Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Palm Warbler (Western)  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  18
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Dickcissel  2
Red-winged Blackbird  11
Common Grackle  4
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
House Finch  5
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  16

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