Blue-gray Gnatcatchers put in a good showing early this week. Photo by Gautam Apte. It’s been a fairly uneventful week up on top of the Higbee dike, but migration continues to push steadily on. As is typical in the early season, most days feature only a handful of neotropical migrants,…...
Birding Cape May Point – September 3, 2022
Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon Temp: 65°F Winds: N 8 mph Weather Conditions: sunny There is a great mix of birds around right now. The shorebird variety is good; we had Pectoral and White-rumped Sandpiper along with Least, Semi-palmated, and Solitary, and Semi-palmated Plover. Six Tricolored Herons circled…...
E-Z Birding at Cape May Point State Park – September 1, 2022
Leaders: Mary Watkins, Bernie Hodgdon Temp: Winds: Weather Conditions: 40 species Species Count Mute Swan 80 Mallard 45 Mourning Dove 4 Killdeer 4 Least Sandpiper 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper 14 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Laughing Gull 10 Great Black-backed Gull 7 Royal Tern 1 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue…...