"Hawk" Watch Wednesday November 25, 2009

Bleh. Once upon a time the most interesting parts of my day were a Great Black-backed Gull carrying the severed head of a fish around the parking lot, and some American Wigeon sitting on the ocean. No raptor movement. The End.

Location: Cape Island--Cape May Point SP--CMBO Hawk Watch
Observation date: 11/25/09
Notes: East Winds, Intermittent Drizzle, Low Visibility
Number of species: 51

Brant 1
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 22
Gadwall 30
American Wigeon 250
American Black Duck X
Northern Shoveler 25
Green-winged Teal 15
Ring-necked Duck 25
Greater Scaup 9
Lesser Scaup 3
Surf Scoter 125
White-winged Scoter 1
Black Scoter 25
dark-winged scoter sp. 50
Bufflehead 4
Red-breasted Merganser 12
Red-throated Loon 125
Northern Gannet 25
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 1 (local)
Northern Harrier 2 (1 male)
Cooper's Hawk 1 (perched)
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1 (perched)
Wilson's Snipe 2
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Laughing Gull 5
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Forster's Tern 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 5
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Tree Swallow 7
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Carolina Wren 8
Eastern Bluebird 5
American Robin 600
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 1200
American Pipit 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 25
Song Sparrow 15
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
blackbird sp. 200
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 950
House Sparrow X

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