Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Cerulean Warblers at Higbee, other notes

While the morning flight at Higbee was no great shakes this morning, there was still a good number of birds to be found on the ground. Keith and Jordan Rutter joined me for a tour around the fields here but found that, as per usual, we couldn't even get out of the parking lot for the first half hour. The reason: a fine pocket of warblers that materialized on the west side of the car-park, highlighted by 2 Cerulean Warblers, as well as a single Blackburnian, a pair of Chestnut-sideds, two notably high-in-tree Prothonotaries, a skulking Worm-eater, a duo or maybe trio of Canadas, and a handful of Blue-winged Warblers. As has been stated before, the area around the parking lot can often provide the best birding at Higbee...keep it in mind before you go dashing off to the field edges on the next good flight morning.

Continuing on, the field edges were dotted with Eastern Kingbirds, Baltimore Orioles, Redstarts and Blue Grosbeaks this morning, and a more noticeable northward movement of the former two developed as the morning continued.

A walk through the State Park provided a few more neat sightings, including a juvenile Pine Warbler, a southbound Northern Harrier, a pair of Pectoral Sandpipers and both species of teal on Bunker Pond. Kingbird numbers were notable here as well, and a single Pitch Pine toward the back of the park played host to over a dozen at one time. Rumor has it that the 2 Marbled Godwits were here again early this morning, as well.

Lists from Higbee and the State Park included-

Location: Higbee Beach
Observation date: 8/19/08
Number of species: 69

Double-crested Cormorant 1
Snowy Egret 8
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 1
Osprey 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
Least Sandpiper 6
Laughing Gull 50
Herring Gull 20
Great Black-backed Gull 12
Least Tern 1
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 6
Mourning Dove 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's) 2
Least Flycatcher 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 35
White-eyed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 2
crow sp. 3
Purple Martin 30
Tree Swallow 30
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 15
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 4
Carolina Wren 8
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 10
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 25
Cedar Waxwing 6
Blue-winged Warbler 4
Yellow Warbler 6
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Cerulean Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 12
American Redstart 20
Prothonotary Warbler 2
Worm-eating Warbler 2
Northern Waterthrush 10
Common Yellowthroat 2
Canada Warbler 3
Field Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 10
Blue Grosbeak 6
Bobolink 6
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Common Grackle 12
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 8
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 6

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Location: Cape May Point SP
Observation date: 8/19/08
Number of species: 73

Canada Goose 30

Mute Swan 12
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 20
Blue-winged Teal 1
Green-winged Teal 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 5
Green Heron 3
Glossy Ibis 6
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 12
Osprey 4
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Killdeer 2
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 22
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
Western Sandpiper 4
Least Sandpiper 15
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 8
Laughing Gull 60
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 8
Least Tern 9
Common Tern 7
Forster's Tern 35
Royal Tern 12
Black Skimmer 45
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 20
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Kingbird 30
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 1
Fish Crow 4
Purple Martin 40
Tree Swallow 250
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 65
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 6
House Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 8
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 70
Cedar Waxwing 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 3
American Redstart 6
Northern Waterthrush 2
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 6
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 9
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Baltimore Oriole 2
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 6

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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