Leading : Peter Dorosh
date = Sept 17th-19th , 2010
site = Cape May,NJ
observers = Brooklyn Bird Club
127 species
Brown Pelican 3 offshore 2 mile Unit Cape May NWR
Black-bellied Whistling Duck 4 Cape May Pt State Park pond
Pied-billed Grebe Cape May Meadows
Northern Gannet offshore Cape May Meadows
Double-crested Cormorant
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Green Heron
Great Egret
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nummy Island
Great Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron Nummy Island
Glossy Ibis Cape May hawkwatch
Turkey Vulture common
Black Vulture several location inc Cape May hawkwatch
Northern Shoveler
Blue-winged Teal Cape May Point State Park, CM Meadows
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Canada Goose
American Wigeon Cape May Point State Park
Wood Duck Cape May Meadows
Green-winged Teal Cape May Meadows
Northern Pintail Cape May Point State Park
Mute Swan
Mallard
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk common over Cape May Point State Park hawkwatch
Red-shouldered Hawk Villas WMA
Bald Eagle at least 12, inc one battling an Osprey over CM Meadows
Red-tailed Hawk
Osprey common flyover
Sharp-shinned Hawk common flyover
Northern Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
American Kestrel common
Merlin
Sora 3 Cape May Meadows, view tower area
Killdeer
Black-bellied Plover Nummy Island
Semipalmated Plover
American Oystercatcher Nummy Island
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit 3 near Nummy Island
Sanderling
American Woodcock Cape May Meadows
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher Cape May Point State Park Bunker Pond
Long-billed Dowitcher Cape May Point State Park Bunker Pond
Lesser Yellowlegs
Baird's Sandpiper Cape May Meadows
Solitary Sandpiper Cape May Point State Park
Pectoral Sandpiper Cape May Meadows
Ruddy Turnstone 2 Nummy Island
Greater Yellowlegs
Laughing Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern 2 Mile Unit; Hereford Inlet; Nummy Island
Royal Tern- Cape May Meadows offshore
Forster's Tern Cape May ferry
Common Tern
Black Skimmer Cape May Meadows, flock
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Traill's Species Empidonax Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue-headed Vireo Higbee Beach WMA
Red-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow numerous, massive flux Saturday
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse Villas WMA
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren CM Meadows
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher CM Pt SP
Ruby-crowned Kinglet CM Pt SP
American Robin
Eastern Bluebird Villas WMA
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Prairie Warbler CM Pt SP
Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Cape May Warbler Higbee WMA, ad female & drab immature
Palm Warbler CM Pt SP
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Pine Warbler Villas WMA
Northern Waterthrush Higbee WMA
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow CM Meadows
Clay-colored Sparrow below hawkwatch, Cape May Pt State Park
Eastern Towhee heard 2 Mile Unit CM NWR
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting Rea 's Farm
Blue Grosbeak 4 Rea 's Farm; 1 Villa WMA; several Cape Island
Baltimore Oriole
Bobolink Cape May Meadows
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Butterflies (may be amended later): Monarch ( very abundant, major mass migration), Common Buckeye ( very common), Little Yellow (Cape May PT.State Park) , Clouded Sulphur, Cloudless Suplur, Gray Hairstreak, Red-banded Hairstreak,Red-spotted Purple, Tiger Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail,Cabbage White, American Lady,Summer Azure,Eastern Tailed Blue,Variegated Fritillary, Viceroy,Fiery Skipper,Pearl Crescent,Question Mark,Red Admiral , American Copper,Silver-spotted Skipper
Total (minimum) 22 species
Dragonflies ( pending)
