When the highlight of Morning Flight is a shorebird species you can see just about every autumn day in Cape May, you know it was slow. The southeast and south winds after 3 days of west winds predictably made for an extremely slow flight, with only 63 individuals this morning. Of note was a flock of 17 Pectoral Sandpipers that showed very well on the dike for several minutes, as well as a nice close group of 5 Broad-winged Hawks that pleased the crowd down on the platform for a bit.
Green-winged Teal 2
Double-crested Cormorant 75
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 20
Cooper's Hawk 5
Broad-winged Hawk 5
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 2
Pectoral Sandpiper 17
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Royal Tern 2
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 4
Blue Jay 25
Tree Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 15
Northern Parula 9
Magnolia Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 4
Blackpoll Warbler 8
warbler sp. 11
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 40
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow X
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