christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson) (05/09/91)
Highlights of a 3-day trip to Cape May, 5/5-5/8 Least bittern Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored (Louisiana) heron Cattle egret black-crowned night heron glossy ibis mute swan snow goose brant canada goose wood duck black duck pintail blue-winged teal gadwall TV osprey merlin clapper rail Plovers: black-bellied semi-palmated Sandpipers: solitary sami-palmated baird's purple stilt oystercatcher greater & lesser yellowlegs willet whimbrel red knot dunlin short-billed dowitcher wilson's phalarope gulls & terns (nothing extraordinary) kingbird br. creeper sedge wren house wren marsh wren white-eyed, yellow-throated, & warbling vireos magnolia warbler blue-winged warbler yellow-rumped warbler prarie warbler redstart yellowthroat chat indigo bunting sharp-tailed sparrow TRIP'S BEST BIRDS: Red-throated, common, and yellow-billed loons (!!!) (Yellow-billed loon is in Stone Harbor, behind The Wetlands Institute. Go all the way back to the small building by the channel). Best, chris -- "Never count a human dead until you've seen the body. And even then you can make a mistake". -Lady Fenring