Seawatch, 31 October 2015

Happy Halloween!! It was treat rather than trick this Halloween at the Avalon Seawatch with a decent flight throughout the day that included another Long-tailed Duck and strong Surf Scoter numbers.
Counter: Skye Haas
Total for the day: 10,829
Total birds for the season: 326,563



10/31Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck17491
AMWI - American Wigeon42163
BBPL - Black-bellied Plover91,364
BLSC - Black Scoter17922,235
BOGU - Bonaparte's Gull123
COLO - Common Loon6670
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant4,736148,184
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species1,12117,137
FOTE - Forster's Tern38413,531
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull3688
GLSC - Greater/Lesser Scaup11547
GRSC - Greater Scaup3104
GWTE - Green-winged Teal1223,207
HERG - Herring Gull172,477
LAGU - Laughing Gull49325,241
LESC - Lesser Scaup16143
LTDU - Long-tailed Duck13
NOGA - Northern Gannet33112,011
NOPI - Northern Pintail1959
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger4451
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull1513
RBME - Red-breasted Merganser334
REKN - Red Knot1191
RNGR - Red-necked Grebe12
ROYT - Royal Tern72,095
RTLO - Red-throated Loon125941
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species16617,006
SUSC - Surf Scoter3,02436,074
UNDU - Duck Species11,135
WODU - Wood Duck2302
WWSC - White-winged Scoter155
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Hawkwatch 31 October 


Cape May
Cape May Point, New Jersey, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 31, 2015
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Species            Day's Count    Month Total   Season Total
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Black Vulture               13             94            103
Turkey Vulture              28            444            574
Osprey                       3            594           3331
Bald Eagle                  10            163            345
Northern Harrier            24            474            688
Sharp-shinned Hawk          92           7304           9712
Cooper's Hawk               72           3265           3965
Northern Goshawk             0              0              0
Red-shouldered Hawk         18             93             97
Broad-winged Hawk            2            151            284
Red-tailed Hawk             72            438            474
Rough-legged Hawk            0              0              0
Golden Eagle                 0             10             10
American Kestrel             2            674           2219
Merlin                       3            490           1088
Peregrine Falcon             0            204            410
Unknown Accipiter            0             12             14
Unknown Buteo                0              1              3
Unknown Falcon               0              0              3
Unknown Eagle                0              0              0
Unknown Raptor               0              1              2
Swainson's Hawk              0              2              2
Zone-tailed Hawk             0              0              1

Total:                     339          14414          23325
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Observation start time: 06:15:00 
Observation end   time: 16:00:00 
Total observation time: 9.75 hours

Official Counter:        Cameron Cox

Observers:        

Weather:
Very light north winds all day. While the morning began chilly it soon
warmed to the low 60's. For much of the day we had perfect hawkwatching
skies, a high dusting of clouds. 

Raptor Observations:
Bald Eagles and Northern Harriers both had better than average days,
everything else was fairly slow.

Non-raptor Observations:
A Cattle Egret, a calling Virginia Rail, and several Purple Finches were
highlights.

Predictions:
Light east winds and warmer temperatures are predicted. It likely will be
quite slow 
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Report submitted by Cameron Cox (Kumlieni@gmail.com)
Cape May information may be found at:
http://BirdCapeMay.org
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Seawatch, 30 October 2015

Counter: Skye Haas & Tom Reed
Total for the day: 3,199
Total birds for the season: 315,735


10/30Season Totals
BBPL - Black-bellied Plover3051,355
BLSC - Black Scoter6222,056
BRAN - Brant142,701
BUFF - Bufflehead119
CATE - Caspian Tern1229
COLO - Common Loon7664
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant1,411143,448
DUNL - Dunlin60442
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species20016,016
FOTE - Forster's Tern10613,147
GREG - Great Egret87472
GWTE - Green-winged Teal73,085
LAGU - Laughing Gull12724,748
LTDU - Long-tailed Duck12
MALL - Mallard232
NOGA - Northern Gannet28611,680
OSPR - Osprey133
PAJA - Parasitic Jaeger13447
REKN - Red Knot3190
ROYT - Royal Tern132,088
RTLO - Red-throated Loon33816
RUTU - Ruddy Turnstone253
SAND - Sanderling3001,645
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species8416,840
SUSC - Surf Scoter6333,050
WODU - Wood Duck10300
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Hawkwatch 30 October 2015 


Cape May
Cape May Point, New Jersey, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 30, 2015
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Species            Day's Count    Month Total   Season Total
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Black Vulture               12             81             90
Turkey Vulture               5            416            546
Osprey                       4            591           3328
Bald Eagle                  15            153            335
Northern Harrier            32            450            664
Sharp-shinned Hawk         201           7212           9620
Cooper's Hawk               58           3193           3893
Northern Goshawk             0              0              0
Red-shouldered Hawk         16             75             79
Broad-winged Hawk            5            149            282
Red-tailed Hawk             54            366            402
Rough-legged Hawk            0              0              0
Golden Eagle                 0             10             10
American Kestrel            21            672           2217
Merlin                      12            487           1085
Peregrine Falcon             4            204            410
Unknown Accipiter            0             12             14
Unknown Buteo                1              1              3
Unknown Falcon               0              0              3
Unknown Eagle                0              0              0
Unknown Raptor               0              1              2
Swainson's Hawk              0              2              2
Zone-tailed Hawk             0              0              1

Total:                     440          14075          22986
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Observation start time: 06:15:00 
Observation end   time: 16:00:00 
Total observation time: 9.75 hours

Official Counter:        Cameron Cox

Observers:        

Weather:
Moderate to cool temperatures with clear blue skies all day. The winds were
light to moderate out of the NNW.

Raptor Observations:
Best daily totals for the season for Red-tailed and Red-shouldered Hawks.
One of the better days for Bald Eagle since September. Northern Harriers
put in a fairly strong showing including 7 gray ghosts. All the typical
raptors present in small numbers.  

Non-raptor Observations:
Excellent flight of of American Robins and Yellow-rumped Warblers early.
Fair numbers of blackbirds included a sprinkling of Rusty Blackbirds. The
first Bufflehead of the season were present on Bunker Pond and at least one
Eurasian Wigeon was in and out.  

Predictions:
Cool temps overnight and predicted WNW winds tomorrow should make for an
excellent day
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Report submitted by Cameron Cox (Kumlieni@gmail.com)
Cape May information may be found at:
http://BirdCapeMay.org
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Morning Flight, 20-29 October 2015

Daily flights continue at the Higbee dike and the last official counting day is tomorrow.  We haven't gotten a really "classic" late fall cold front but hopefully tomorrow will be a last hoorah and give the season's count tally a chance to catch up on a few species that haven't show in average numbers yet.

Species
Oct 20
Oct 21
Oct 22
Oct 23
Oct 24
Oct 25
Oct 26
Oct 27
Oct 28
Oct 29
Belted Kingfisher

1


1

1



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker



1


1



Downy Woodpecker
3
1

2
2


3

1
Northern Flicker
2
2

4
6

6
2
1

Eastern Phoebe


1
6
1





Blue-headed Vireo



1






Blue Jay

2


3


4

1
Red-breasted Nuthatch



1






Golden-crowned Kinglet
3
4
9
40
4
7
12
4


Ruby-crowned Kinglet

1
1
36
1

1
1


kinglet sp.



4






Eastern Bluebird



13



5


American Robin



301
207

726
367
6
2
European Starling

27
5

37
7

19

7
American Pipit

1
3
43
43

14
18
2

Cedar Waxwing



119
24

2
2


Tennessee Warbler




1





Orange-crowned Warbler



1



1


Nashville Warbler



1


2



Oreothlypis sp.






1



Common Yellowthroat



2






American Redstart







1


Cape May Warbler




1





Northern Parula



1
1

2



Blackpoll Warbler
2
4
2
43
11

15
5

1
Palm Warbler

3
2
74
7

6
3

1
Pine Warbler



1
2





Yellow-rumped Warbler
50
29
34
3,532
1,121
29
1,280
366
13
31
Black-throated Green Warbler
1


1






warbler sp.


3
516
3

8
2


Chipping Sparrow



272
4

6
1


Field Sparrow
1



3

3
1


Vesper Sparrow



2






Savannah Sparrow

1

1
6

3
1


Dark-eyed Junco



27
11

111
1


Dickcissel






1



Bobolink



1
1





Eastern Meadowlark



4
9

9
2
1
1
Rusty Blackbird

7

14
82

6
3


Purple Finch




10

1



House Finch

7
5
3
9

2
19


Pine Siskin

1
1
25
6

13
1


American Goldfinch

22
50
527
77

53
42

4
House Sparrow







3


Total
62
113
116
5,619
1,694
43
2,285
877
23
49
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