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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:03:40 -0400
From: Shawneen Finnegan
To: NJ Birds Mailing list
Subject: Fallout and Curlew Sandpiper
The Curlew Sandpiper continued today at Thompson's Beach, Cumberland County. It was found around noon as the tide fell. This time it was much farther out the dike/closed road, almost all the way to the bayshore. Yesterday it was not nearly as far down the road. There were thousands of shorebirds present, so it could conceivably take a long time to find this bird.
The first-year White-faced Ibis was again at the pond near Reed's Beach today, seen at 11 AM.
Yesterday's cool weather and showers with east wind switched as a warm front passed through Cape May during the night, shifting the winds to the southwest, followed by lots fog at dawn. A massive flights of passerines occurred in Cape May this morning. One of the largest spring fallouts ever in Cape May County.
Highlights included many hundreds of warblers including approximately 300 redstarts, 175 Magnolias, 175 Blackpolls, 125 Common Yellowthroats, 40 Black-throated Blues, etc., etc., plus such uncommon or late migrants as Red-breasted Nuthatch, Alder Flycatcher, 3 Least Flycatchers, 25 pewees, 8 Blue-headed Vireos, Olive-sided Flycatcher, 8 Wilson's Warblers, 3 Mourning Warblers, 3 Lincoln Sparrows, several Gray-cheeked Thrushes, etc.
A Stilt Sandpiper continued today at South Cape May Meadows, found yesterday.
Shawneen Finnegan and Paul Lehman
Cape May, NJ