Cape May Hotline, Cumberland and Altantic Co., NJ RBA
May 1, 2008
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Subject: [BIRDEAST] RBA: Cape May, NJ, May 1 2008
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- RBA
* New Jersey
* Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic Counties
* NJCM0805.01
* May 1, 2008
- Birds Mentioned
+ Swallow-tailed Kite
+ White-faced Ibis
+ Yellow Rail
+ (Details requested by NJBRC)
American Redstart
Baltimore Oriole
Caspian Tern
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Common Eider
Common Merganser
Common Tern
Great Cormorant
Gull-billed Tern
Marbled Godwit
Northern Bobwhite
Orange-crowned Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Purple Sandpiper
Red Knot
Red-headed Woodpecker
Royal Tern
Scarlet Tanager
Summer Tanager
White-rumped Sandpiper
--Transcript
Hotline: Cape May Birding Hotline
To Report: (609) 884-2736, sightings@birdcapemay.org
Coverage: Cape May, Cumberland and Atlantic Counties, NJ
Compiler: Tom Reed, Cape May Bird Observatory
URL: http://www.njaudubon.org ; http://www.birdcapemay.org
This is the Cape May Birding Hotline, a service of New Jersey Audubon
Society's Cape May Bird Observatory. This week's message was prepared
on Thursday, May 1, 2008. Highlights this week include sightings of
WHITE-FACED IBIS, SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, YELLOW RAIL, COMMON MERGANSER,
COMMON EIDER, NORTHERN BOBWHITE, MARBLED GODWIT, RED KNOT, WHITE-
RUMPED SANDPIPER, PURPLE SANDPIPER, GULL-BILLED TERN, CASPIAN TERN,
COMMON TERN, ROYAL TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, ORANGE-CROWNED
WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, SUMMER TANAGER,
SCARLET TANAGER, ORCHARD ORIOLE, and BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
-- For more up to the minute Cape May sightings information check the
"View from the Cape" section of www.BirdCapeMay.org --
Multiple YELLOW RAILS continued to be heard at Turkey Point in
Cumberland County throughout the week. A YELLOW RAIL was heard again
at Jake's Landing on 5/1.
A SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was reported over Cape May Point State Park on
4/30.
The WHITE-FACED IBIS at Heislerville WMA in Cumberland County
continued as of 4/27.
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, very rare in spring, were noted at Nummy
Island and Cape May Point on 4/30.
New arrivals at Higbee Beach WMA on 4/25 included CHESTNUT-SIDED
WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, SCARLET TANAGER and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. The
season's first ORCHARD ORIOLE was found in Erma on 4/24.
Sightings from Brig/Forsythe NWR this week included CASPIAN TERN,
COMMON MERGANSER and NORTHERN BOBWHITE.
SUMMER TANAGER arrived in Dividing Creek, Cumberland County on 5/1. A
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER was seen at nearby Bivalve the same day.
COMMON TERN arrived at Cape May Point and GULL-BILLED TERN arrived at
Beaver Swamp WMA on 4/30.
GREAT CORMORANT, PURPLE SANDPIPER, RED KNOT and ROYAL TERN were noted
at Two Mile Beach on 4/29. A MARBLED GODWIT has been seen in the area
of Two Mile Landing this week.
1 or 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continued to be seen at Villas WMA/
Ponderlodge throughout the week.
An immature male COMMON EIDER was found near the 8th Street jetty in
Avalon on 5/1.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CMBO is offering a special to new and upgraded membership renewals.
Join CMBO for the first time or upgrade from Individual or Family to
The Hundred and receive Charley Harper's Migration Mainline- Cape May
lithograph poster, valued at $50. Call either CMBO center to ask an
associate about joining today!
******CMBO Bookstore SPRING HOURS are as follows: Northwood Center on
East Lake Drive in Cape May Point will be open 7 days a week, APRIL 1
- MAY 31, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Center for Research and
Education on Rt. 47 in Goshen is open Tuesday - Sunday, 9:30-
4:30.******
The Cape May Birding Hotline is a service of the New Jersey Audubon
Society's Cape May Bird Observatory and details sightings from Cape
May, Cumberland, and Atlantic Counties. Updates are made weekly.
Please report sightings of rare or unusual birds to CMBO at
609-884-2736. Sponsorship for this hotline comes from the support of
CMBO members and business members, and should you not be a member, we
cordially invite you to join. Individual membership is $39 per year;
$49 for families. You can call either center to become a member or
visit. Become a member in person and you'll receive a FREE gift (in
addition to member discount in the stores).
Good Luck and Good Birding!
- End Transcript
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NJ 07059
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