Morning Flight Thursday September 3 2009

Definitely a bit on the slow side today, but it highlights how important weather is to the birding here in Cape May. If we don't get the weather we don't get the birds, if we do then there are few better placed to be.

Totals below are for all birds seen and include species or individuals not participating in morning flight.

Canada Goose 2
Mallard 8
Northern Shoveler 1
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Black Vulture 6
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 3
Bald Eagle 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Semipalmated Sandpiper 35
Least Sandpiper 3
Laughing Gull 60
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 12
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 6
Royal Tern 9
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 6
Chimney Swift 18
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 18
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 8
Fish Crow 2
Purple Martin 25
Tree Swallow 15
Bank Swallow 1
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 55
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Veery 3
American Robin 12
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 4
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 150
Cedar Waxwing 15
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 8
Yellow Warbler 4
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 6
American Redstart 34
Northern Waterthrush 2
Common Yellowthroat 3
Northern Cardinal 6
Bobolink 4
Red-winged Blackbird 85
Common Grackle 6
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 1

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