been remiss in my blogging duties! Rob Hynson and I have gone scouting twice with Bert from DVOC's team, he's nice enough to show us some South Jersey spots.
The first benefit went well we raised about $240. Hope to raise much much more.
Today axillary team member Brian Hart and I had a great day scouting Cumberland and Northern Cape May County.
We had Blue-gray Gnatcatchers off of Railroad ave, at Belleplain SF and at Beaver Swamp WMA. We had breeding plumage Common Loons at Dividing Creek and Ludlams Pond. Bivalve the tide was too high to see much, the water levels were high due to the rains everywhere that was non tidal so we skipped on Heislerville. Turkey Point had a gorgeous male Harries, a boat load of Boat-tailed Grackles and a clicking Clapper Rail.
Belleplain on the Washington Ave entrance had 4 calling Yellow-throated Warblers --we got to see one stunning singing male and saw a Pine Warbler as well. We also heard Black and White Warblers.
The momma, poppa and baby Bald Eagle were all at Beaver Swamp WMA.
Jake's Landing was awesome, Clapper Rails starting their engines, Marsh Wrens singing, good looks at a singing Seaside Sparrow, Meadowlarks, Willets, Harriers, Osprey on nest, a Short-eared Owls was even flying about. A muskrat was walking around the parking lot. After sundown but with still a bit light we had a Peregrine Falcon take a whack at a flying Snowy Egret. The Peregrine flew off but the egret dropped away from the three others it was flying with and landed close to the dyke, definitely injured. On the way out we heard a Whip-poor Will give its call once.
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