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Daily Walk Report

Date: 25-Mar-07 WindDesc: light Temp(F): 43

StartTime: 8:25 AM WindDir: N CloudCover: pc

EndTime: 9:20 AM Location: HMF

Notes: some migration last night, but most was exodus. Much
fewer birds around.

English Name Scientific Name

Chickadee sp. Poecile sp.

Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

Canada Goose Branta canadensis

Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos

Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroica coronata

Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus

Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater

Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens

Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis

White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla

Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus

American Robin Turdus migratorius

Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis

Chris Vogel posted to Jerseybirds:

While the best bird of the day was asssuredly the Barn
Swallow which I did not see but only heard about, via
credible observers-though its presence is perfectly on
time for arrival in Cape May; A bit of sea-watching
from Cape May Point revealed:

1 E. Phoebe flying in over Delaware Bay

A couple of thousand Scoter off St. Mary’s Jetty.

a few hundred Scaup of both persuasions seen from the
same spot.

one flock of 4 Horned and 1 Pied-billed Grebe-all
together and rather unexpectedly flying north into
the Bay, as seen fron St. Mary’s. A PBG crossing the
bay, even in the early morning, is something of an
oddity few can confess to having seen from Cape May
Point.

good numbers of Gannets and a flock of Canadas in the
bay, not to mention the 50 Red-throated Loons and
little flocks of Oldsquaw were also to be had in half
an hour of Sea-watching from CMPt.

One or two Fox Sparrows and a very yellow-bellied male
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker were at Schellenger’s
Landing.

and while I missed the afore-mentioned Creepers, etc.
at Ponderlodge, Golden-crowned Kinglets were very much
more in evidence.

And Great-horned Owlets in the neghborhood are
developing horns and have facial discs at his point,
though still beiing perfectly white and fuzzy.

And as if in response to “are they Ring-bills or
Laughers”- two phalanxes of 60 0r so mid-sized gulls
Laughed like only Laughing Gulls can at the
possibillity of having their identities mistaken as
they headed NW-even for just a moment or two. Flocks
of Laughing Gulls, flying NW over the Bayshore, and
laughing like Ophelia all the way, are surely the best
sign of spring madness that this birder knows of!

Summer can’t be too far behind…amen and amen!

Cheers
CJV
Cape May, NJ