The hawk flight became heavy right around 10:30 AM, and kept up for almost 2 hours before the strong East winds shut it down almost completely. Not much in the way f a buteo flight materialized but a close low Red-shouldered pleased the few people that were on the platform just before 3 PM. Currently there is a decent variety of Sparrows and Ducks viewable from the platform, which always a nice bonus. Saturday we should be inside the pavilion due to the projected rain (almost 100%).
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Point SP--CMBO Hawk Watch
Observation date: 10/23/09
Notes: Light NE wind, becoming strong from the East by 12:00 PM.
Number of species: 70
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
Gadwall 6
American Wigeon 12
Mallard 10
Blue-winged Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 8
Northern Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 27
Ring-necked Duck 4
Greater Scaup 1
Surf Scoter X
Black Scoter X
dark-winged scoter sp. 5000
Ruddy Duck 6
Common Loon 2
Pied-billed Grebe 5
Northern Gannet 500
Double-crested Cormorant 250
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 4
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 34
Osprey 6
Northern Harrier 9
Sharp-shinned Hawk 237
Cooper's Hawk 69
Red-shouldered Hawk 4
Broad-winged Hawk 5
Red-tailed Hawk 8
American Kestrel 10
Merlin 5
Peregrine Falcon 7
Common Moorhen 1
American Coot 15
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Forster's Tern 15
Royal Tern 45
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) X
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Fish Crow X
Tree Swallow 600
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren X
American Robin 50
Gray Catbird X
Northern Mockingbird X
European Starling X
American Pipit 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) X
Palm Warbler X
Common Yellowthroat X
Savannah Sparrow X
Song Sparrow X
Swamp Sparrow 4
White-crowned Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Eastern Meadowlark 16
Common Grackle X
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch X
House Sparrow X
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