CMBO Cape May Point walk and..........Swallow-tailed Kite

A Swallow-tailed Kite was seen from the back side of the second field at Higbee at approximately 10:00 am this morning. Anyone birding Cape May today should be on the look out for this bird!!!! When the bird was first observed it was headed in the direction of the Delaware Bay so there is a very good possibility it could be hanging around Cape May.

EDIT: The Swallow-tailed Kite was seen again, from the second tower field at Higbee, as well as at least two Mississippi Kites at approximately 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. More to come as more reports are received.


The list from today's CMBO Cape May Point Walk is below.


Location: Cape May Point
Observation date: 5/21/08
Number of species: 49

Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 5
Mallard 5
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 3
Glossy Ibis 3
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 3
Killdeer 4
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 10
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 10
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Least Tern 20
Common Tern 3
Forster's Tern 20
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 3
Purple Martin 50
Tree Swallow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 1
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 8
American Robin 5
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 15
Yellow Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 6
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 20
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
House Finch 2
House Sparrow 5

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