World Series of Birding 2010 Swap Meet Notes check list – 2010 worksheet waterfowl poverty Beach (near Coast Guard Base at far east end of Cape May) is good spot for lingering waterfowl

World Series of Birding - 2010 Swap Meet Notes

CHECK LIST – 2010 WORKSHEET
WATERFOWL -

Poverty Beach (near Coast Guard Base at far east end of Cape May) is good spot for lingering waterfowl
GOOSE, Snow - Fulling Mill Rd (next to Menz Restaurant) Ft. Apache area

Brant

Canada

SWAN, Mute

DUCK, Wood - Fly over Hidden Valley; Beaver Swamp; Holmes Landing (Cape May County Zoo)

Gadwall - Meadows; Bunker Pond (Cape May Point State Park); West Cape May Impoundments; Coast Guard Ponds (Ocean Drive); Brigantine

American Wigeon - Brigantine; Heislerville

American Black

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)

Northern Shoveler - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); West Cape May Impoundments

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); 5 at Brigantine

Ring-necked - pair at Brigantine

Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Common Eider - Townsends Inlet (ocean & bayside)

Harlequin - Avalon Seawatch on 5/11

Surf Scoter - ocean at dune crossover by Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); Poverty Beach

White-winged Scoter

Black Scoter - Poverty Beach; beach at Coral (Cape May Point)

Long-tailed - Sea Isle at 84^th Street (bayside); Townsends Inlet Causeway

Bufflehead - female at Cape May Harbor (Delaware Avenue Cape May); park in small dirt patch

Common Goldeneye

Hooded Merganser - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)

Common Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser - free bridge Nummy Island

Ruddy - same area at Bufflehead in Cape May Harbor

GAMEBIRDS

PHEASANT, Ring-necked

GROUSE, Ruffed - none in Cape May County

TURKEY, Wild - dead end of Bayshore Road (past intersection New England & Bayshore south of canal); field across from Wildwood Water Works on Rt 47 (just north of Menz Restaurant); numerous in northern Cape May County

BOBWHITE, Northern - on lawn at 215 Eldredge Avenue Villas
LOONS - HERONS

LOON, Red-throated - Poverty Beach on 5/12

Common - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); Poverty Beach; Coast Guard Ponds

GREBE, Pied-billed - Lizard Tail Swamp (1½ mile walk) - beware of yellow trail

Horned

SHEARWATER, Sooty

Storm-Petrel, Wilson's

GANNET, Northern - anywhere off Cape May Point; Stone Harbor; Avalon

PELICAN, Brown - fly by piling Poverty Beach

CORMORANT, Great - fly by Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); off Meadows; Coast Guard pilings at Poverty Beach

Double-crested
HERONS

American Bittern - Gull Pond Brigantine

Least Bittern - Gull Pond Brigantine; Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)

Great Blue - Bunker Pond; Two Mile Landing; Cape May County Zoo pond

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Little Blue - Beaver Swamp; Lake Lily (immature); Sea Isle south end fragmite area bayside (heronry); Sunset Lake (Wildwood)

Tricolored - Scotch Bonnet Marina; Bree-Z-Lee Marina; Two Mile; 34^th St bayside Avalon

Cattle Egret - Smith Farm PRIVATE PROPERTY (horse field just north of the Beanery); Hidden Valley; McPherson Pond (Shunpike off Stimpson)

Green - Lake Lily (5/14)

Black-crowned Night

Yellow-crowned Night - 34^th St. bayside (nest) Avalon; Heislerville; N side canal at West Cape May Impoundments (marshy area)

IBIS, Glossy
VULTURES, HAWKS, EAGLES

VULTURE, Black

Turkey

OSPREY

KITE, Mississippi - Beanery; Stevens Street

EAGLE, Bald - Cape Island over Higbee; New England Rd; Brigantine; Beaver Swamp; Glade Road (active nest); Jakes

HARRIER, Northern - 1 at Jakes; 3 at Stimpson Landing; 1 at Meadows; Brigantine

HAWK, Sharp-shinned

Cooper's - Beanery, Cape Island Creek, Villas WMA

Northern Goshawk

Red-shouldered - calling at Lizard Tail Swamp power lines near impoundments

Broad-winged - Belleplain

Red-tailed - Higbee

FALCONS

American Kestrel - Lizard Tail Swamp at power line cut

Merlin

Peregrine - Brigantine; Sea Isle (nest) hack tower near causeway
RAILS & SHOREBIRDS

RAIL, Black - Jakes Landing

Clapper

King - Brigantine (5/10)

Virginia - Pond Creek Marsh; Jakes Landing; Turkey Point; Tyler Rd.; Tuckahoe

Sora

MOORHEN, Common - Davey’s Lake; Lake Lily (5/14)

COOT, American

PLOVER, Black-bellied

American Golden-

Semipalmated

Piping - Meadows (look in exclosures); Plover Pond (Cape May Point State Park)

Killdeer

OYSTERCATCHER, American

AVOCET, American

SANDPIPERS

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet

Lesser Yellowlegs

Solitary - McPherson Pond (Shunpike near Stimpson)

Spotted

Upland - Cape May County airport restaurant parking near marker B19 (5/14)

Whimbrel - back bay marshes; Two Mile Landing; Shellbay Landing; Stone Harbor Causeway

Marbled Godwit - Two Mile Landing across to Thorofare Island best at High Tide

Ruddy Turnstone

Red Knot - Norbury’s Landing (low to mid-tide); Cooks Beach; Nummy Island (high tide east side)

Sanderling

Semipalmated

Least

White-rumped - Meadows, West Cape May Impoundments; Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); Brigantine

Pectoral - 1 at Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); Meadows; West Cape May Impoundments; McPherson’s Pond (Shunpike off Stimpson)

Purple - Avalon at 8^th St Jetty near Seawatch; Concrete Ship; Townsends Inlet Causeway (bayside base of bridge Avalon side)

Dunlin

Stilt - West Cape May Impoundments, Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)

Short-billed Dowitcher

SNIPE, Wilson's - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)

WOODCOCK, American - Tyler Road @ Cedar Swamp Trail

PHALAROPE, Wilson's - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); West Cape May Impoundments
GULLS & TERNS

JAEGER, Parasitic - rips off St. Mary’s outgoing tide (Cape May Point - Lehigh Ave beach entrance)

GULL, Bonaparte's - south of Reed’s Beach; Douglas Park (across from Cape May Lewes Ferry terminal); Meadows; Norbury’s Landing; Miami Ave & Tampa Ave at low tide best spot - Villas)

Little

Laughing

Ring-billed - along the Bayshore - Miami, Norbury’s Landing, Cook’s Beach

Herring

Iceland

Lesser Black-backed - Back side of Townsend Inlet marshes (young birds)

Glaucous

Great Black-backed

TERN, Least - Meadows, Cape May Point State Park

Gull-billed - Brigantine; Shellbay, Beaver Swamp

Caspian - Brigantine

Black - Cape May Point State Park; Meadows; Bunker Pond; Miami Avenue, rips off Cape May Point

Roseate - Coral Avenue Cape May Point (5/14 - not reported since)

Common

Forster's

Royal - pilings at Poverty Beach; rips off Cape May Point

SKIMMER, Black - Cooks Beach, Heislerville

DOVES - WOODPECKERS

DOVE, Mourning

PIGEON, Rock

CUCKOO, Black-billed

Yellow-billed

OWL, Barn

Eastern Screech-

Great Horned

Barred

Long-eared

Short-eared

Northern Saw-whet

NIGHTHAWK, Common - Brigantine; Davey’s Lake @ Higbee Beach; Indian Trail powerline cut

CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW - Cape May County Airport, Great Cedar Swamp (any dense, wet swampy woods)

WHIP-POOR-WILL - northern edge Cape May County; Woodbine; Belleplain

SWIFT, Chimney

HUMMINGBIRD, Ruby-throated - feeders at Center for Research & Education; Michael & Louise’s house on Stevens St.; Sheila & Marleen’s on Bayshore Rd.

KINGFISHER, Belted - Cape May Canal at dead end of Bayshore; Tuckahoe Lake

WOODPECKER, Red-headed - Tamerlane Campground (Rt 9 Oceanview) OBEY 5 MPH SPEED LIMIT; oak trees by parking lot Villas WMA

Pileated

Red-bellied

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy

Hairy

Northern Flicker
PERCHING BIRDS

FLYCATCHER, Olive-sided

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Yellow-bellied

Acadian - Belleplain (Cedar Swamp, near HQ, and Sunset Bridge)

Alder

Willow

Least

Eastern Phoebe - HQ Belleplain, bathrooms at northside of lake

Great Crested

Eastern Kingbird

VIREO, White-eyed

Blue-headed

Yellow-throated - Weatherby Rd.

Warbling

Red-eyed

LARK, Horned - Cape May County Airport; Woodbine Airport; Papermill Road; Meadows

SWALLOWS

Purple Martin

Tree

Northern Rough-winged

Bank

Cliff

Barn

JAY, Blue

CROW, American

Fish

RAVEN, Common

CHICKADEE, Black-capped

Carolina

TITMOUSE, Tufted

NUTHATCH, Red-breasted

White-breasted

CREEPER, Brown

WREN, Carolina

House

Winter

Sedge

Marsh

KINGLET, Golden-crowned

Ruby-crowned

GNATCATCHER, Blue-gray

BLUEBIRD, Eastern - Beanery back field by vineyard (VINEYARD IS PRIVATE PROPERTY); Villas WMA near bluebird boxes; Cedar Swamp Trail

THRUSHES

Veery

Gray-cheeked

Bicknell's

Swainson's

Hermit

Wood

ROBIN, American

CATBIRD, Gray

MOCKINGBIRD, Northern

THRASHER, Brown

STARLING, European

PIPIT, American

WAXWING, Cedar

WARBLER, Blue-winged - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Golden-winged - (female) north end of Villas WMA (5/14)

Tennessee

Nashville

Northern Parula - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Yellow - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Chestnut-sided - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Magnolia - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Cape May

Black-throated Blue

Yellow-rumped

Black-throated Green - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Blackburnian - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk; 5/14 Northwood Center

Yellow-throated - Belleplain near tall stands White Pine; Jakes Landing

Pine

Prairie

Palm

Bay-breasted

Blackpoll - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Cerulean

Black-and-white - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

American Redstart - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Prothonotary - Beanery, Cedar Swamp Trail at Tyler Road; Beaver Swamp

Worm-eating - Belleplain at damp woods in dense understory, Sunset Bridge area, and Pine Swamp Rd at 90° corner

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush

Louisiana Waterthrush - Belleplain around Sunset Bridge stream crossing

Kentucky - Belleplain; Lizard Tail Swamp; Fulling Mill Rd (airport side)

Mourning

Common Yellowthroat - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Hooded - Belleplain around Sunset Bride & edge of Cedar Swamp

Wilson's - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Canada - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk

Yellow-breasted Chat - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk; Langley Rd Heislerville; Berrytown Road; Cape May Point State Park; Schellengers Tract (Villas/Del Haven)

TOWHEE, Eastern

SPARROW, Chipping

Field

Vesper

Savannah - Jakes Landing; Magnesite Plant

Grasshopper - Higbee (5/13)

Nelson's

Saltmarsh - Ocean Drive at Bree-Z-Lee Marina - Mile Marker 1; Jakes Landing

Seaside

Song

Lincoln's - Cape May Point State Park

Swamp

White-throated - Northwood last seen on 5/11; Jacksonville (Villas); Villas WMA

White-crowned

Dark-eyed Junco

TANAGER, Summer - Belleplain Pine Swamp Rd., Franks Rd., Sumner Ave; Lizard Tail Swamp; 2^nd Field Higbee (imm male) on 5/14

Scarlet

CARDINAL, Northern

GROSBEAK, Rose-breasted

Blue - 2^nd field Higbee; corner New England & Bayshore; Magnesite Plant near entrance; Center for Research & Education

BUNTING, Indigo

DICKCISSEL - Hidden Valley; St. Pete’s (Lake Dr) singing at dune crossover

BOBOLINK - back end of 2^nd field Hidden Valley; back end of cemetery on Shunpike

BLACKBIRD, Red-winged

MEADOWLARK, Eastern - end of Jakes Landing road across stream; E/SE end of Sumner Rd; Meadows

BLACKBIRD, Rusty

GRACKLE, Boat-tailed

Common

COWBIRD, Brown-headed

ORIOLE, Orchard

Baltimore

FINCH, Purple

House

CROSSBILL, Red

SISKIN, Pine

GOLDFINCH, American

GROSBEAK, Evening

SPARROW, House
WRITE IN SPECIES

White-faced Ibis - Brigantine

Bar-tailed Godwit - Brigantine (Peregrine Tower - 6:30 PM 5/13)

Curlew Sandpiper - Medium red plumage in SE corner of Heislerville Impoundment along long dike toward woods