CMBO Cape May Point walk- 1/31/09

(Photo courtesy of Karl Lukens; http://home.comcast.net/~jklukens/)

Karl Lukens send word of the bird findings from today's Cape May Point walk. While cold and windy kept me inside today I am kicking myself for not getting you and seeing the White-winged Crossbills the group was graced with! After all 54 species on a cold January day is not all that bad.

"Another cold and windy day for the CMBO Cape May Point Walk. We were
rewarded however, by a visit of 13 White-winged Crossbills that sat down for
1-2 minutes in the Pine Trees at Whillden Ave. and the dunes before flying
off. Also a good variety of ducks including a female Redhead and what looked
like female Lesser Scaup. Purple Sandpipers and Ruddy Turnstones were making
their rounds of the jetties."

Location: Cape May Point
Observation date: 1/31/09
Notes: CMBO Trip-K,T,CS,DL,+1.Clr,24,NW18.
Number of species: 54

Snow Goose 30
Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 15
Gadwall 25
American Wigeon 25
Mallard 20
Redhead 1 fem
Ring-necked Duck 10
Lesser Scaup 1
Black Scoter 12
Bufflehead 1
Hooded Merganser 5
Ruddy Duck 5
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 6
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Coot 10
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Sanderling 4
Purple Sandpiper 5
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 15
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 5
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Eastern Bluebird 8
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 12
White-throated Sparrow 10
Northern Cardinal 5
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 1
House Finch 7
White-winged Crossbill 13
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 10

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