Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, January 4th, 2015

Now’s the time of year to look at seaducks and the Point is a great place to do it. A Common Eider has been working the waters off St. Mary’s and it’s long, sloping bill makes it easy to distinguish from nearby scoters. The scoters, too - Black and Surf - can be distinguished from each other by their bill shapes, with the relatively small bill of the Black Scoter and the heavy triangular bill of the Surf Scoter. A small flock of Purple Sandpipers flew in as we we're watching the sea ducks, too...always a nice winter treat. Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Steve Weis, and Chris Marks.
50 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  2
Mute Swan  2
Gadwall  22
American Wigeon  15
Mallard  15
Northern Shoveler  2
Ring-necked Duck  8
Common Eider  1
Surf Scoter  8
Black Scoter  20
Surf/Black Scoter  20
Long-tailed Duck  3
Bufflehead  9
Ruddy Duck  9
Red-throated Loon  2
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Northern Gannet  6
Great Blue Heron  1
Osprey (American)  1     Lingering late bird
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
American Coot  30
Purple Sandpiper  2
Herring Gull (American)  36
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Eurasian Collared-Dove  1
Mourning Dove  25
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  4
Carolina Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  4
American Robin  15
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  26
Fox Sparrow (Red)  1
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  9
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  3
Northern Cardinal  7
Red-winged Blackbird  7
House Finch  5
House Sparrow  5

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