A really good trip for me in Cape May on top of my friend's wedding. The best bird , a lifer for me , Brown Booby seen from the boat Skimmer, Ash-throated Flycatcher I found, Eurasian Wigeon, and 106 species for the weekend. Just a magical place down there.
Here are reports I received while I was away:
From Kathy Toomey
date = 2011/10/17
site = Prospect Park
observers = Kathy Toomey, Emily Goldstein, Debra Sit
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Green Heron
Great Blue Heron
Northern Shoveler
Canada Goose
Wood Duck female, Lullwater
Ruddy Duck
Mute Swan
Mallard
Cooper's Hawk
Osprey
American Coot one, seen from fisherman's beach on Peninsula
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker heard
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Gray Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch heard
Brown Creeper
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Swainson's Thrush
Gray Catbird
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Palm Warbler
Northern Parula
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
American Goldfinch heard
House Sparrow
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FRom Rob Bate:
Very slow all around. I had a possible Tennessee Warbler on the wood chip path up to Lookout Hill and a definite Hooded Warbler in the Ravine just above the Boulder bridge by the falls there. The Hooded from the 3 Arches Bridge area may have moved upstream. The most active area was near the skating rink along the shore and the dirt mounds enclosed in the chain link fence. It's hard to see through the fencing sometimes and impossible to get close but the birds seem to like the weedy vegetation that has infested the area around the dirt mounds. I had good numbers of Chippies and at least a Song Sparrow; there were a number of birds that were just to far off to identify without my scope.
The ballfields were quiet, just one Savannah and a Palm, nothing at Sparrow Bowl.
29 species
Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 4
Mallard 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 3
Carolina Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 2
Hooded Warbler 1 Ravine at Boulder Bridge
Northern Parula 1
Palm Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 6
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 2
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 20
