[One of two American Woodcock in a Cape May Point yard today. Click to enlarge photos.]
Our fourth annual
Kick Off Your Year List in Cape May field trip yielded 76 species and a whole lot of fun. Highlights, besides those pictured, included 8
Marbled Godwits and 5
"western" Willets at Stone Harbor, seen from the north side of the Nummy Island toll bridge; several
Purple Finches plus
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and
both nuthatches in Cape May Point;
Purple Sandpipers in Cape May and at Stone Harbor and Avalon; and some great company! Lists from the sites we visited are up on
Field Trip Reports.
[One of the field trip particpants specifically requested Fox Sparrow; this one obliged along New England Road. Fox Sparrows are fairly common winter birds on the Cape May Peninsula, unlike farther north in the state.]
[Two Short-eared Owls at Jake's Landing performed on cue, joining a "Gray Ghost" Northern Harrier to abuse a perched Red-tailed Hawk around 4:40 p.m., then perching and hunting just across Dennis Creek.]
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