Finally some northwestish winds at the watch, and the Hawks, well...Falcons at least, responded. We had a solid afternoon American Kestrel and Peregrine Falcon flight pick up as the mid-day accipiter flight (also not too slow) wound down, and we counted almost through 6:00 PM since the Kestrels (200 total for the day, 30 after 5:00 PM) were still moving. By the late afternoon a good number of Ospreys had settled down to hunt and roost in the area (see Josh's post @ http://www.birdcapemay.org/blog/), so there could be an early movement of them tomorrow. Non-raptor highlights were a flyover Dickcissel, the continuing 2 Common Moorhen at the back of Bunker Pond and 2 Parasitic Jaegers working the rips between 8 and 9 AM.
eBird list follows:
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Point SP--CMBO Hawk Watch
Observation date: 9/24/09
Number of species: 69
Canada Goose 150
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 2
American Wigeon 29
American Black Duck 4
Mallard X
Blue-winged Teal 11
Northern Shoveler 4
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Northern Gannet 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 3
Glossy Ibis 1
Black Vulture 16
Turkey Vulture 14
Bald Eagle 9
Northern Harrier 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk 171
Cooper's Hawk 59
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 200
Merlin 18
Peregrine Falcon 23
Common Moorhen 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 9
Pectoral Sandpiper 16
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 3
Common Tern X
Forster's Tern 40
Royal Tern 40
Black Skimmer 300
Parasitic Jaeger 2
Rock Pigeon 20
Mourning Dove 20
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 50
White-eyed Vireo 1 Heard only
Blue Jay 2
Fish Crow X
Tree Swallow 500
Cliff Swallow 2 Separate individual flyovers
Barn Swallow X
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 8
European Starling X
Yellow Warbler 2
Palm Warbler (Western) 4
Northern Waterthrush 2
Common Yellowthroat 2
Song Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 1 Heard only
Northern Cardinal X
Dickcissel 1
Bobolink 250
Red-winged Blackbird 500
Common Grackle 3
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow X
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