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Higbee Beach Birding – September 24, 2021

Leaders (7:30am group): Mary Watkins, Bernie Hodgdon Leaders (7:45am group): Chris Marks, Jackie Parker Temp: Winds: Weather Conditions:   7:30am group: Lots of catbirds and bluejays! Then warblers high and low once the sun hit the trees.! 30 species Species Count Mourning Dove 2 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 4…...

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Migration at the Point – September 22, 2021

Leaders: Brett Ewald, Chris Marks, Mary Watkins Temp: Winds: Weather Conditions: 41 species Species Count Black Scoter 4 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3 Mourning Dove 18 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Sanderling 27 Laughing Gull 25 Ring-billed Gull 4 Herring Gull 7 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 28 Caspian Tern…...

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Monarch Monitoring Project – September 20, 2021

We are nearly three weeks into the field season for the Monarch Monitoring Project, and on Sunday (Sept. 19) we started to see the season’s first major influx of monarchs into Cape May Point.  We also conducted our first three tagging demos on Friday through Sunday, with good attendance each…...

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