Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, December 12th, 2015

It is definitely December, even though it was 60 degrees at 10 am. We had 14 species of ducks, which is to be expected in December. It is a time when they are gathering and looking quite spiffy in their winter plumage.  They can be seen feeding and preening, on the freshwater ponds and the ocean waters. Leaders: Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, and Steve Weis.
47 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  16
Mute Swan  5
Gadwall  32
Eurasian Wigeon  1
American Wigeon  21
Mallard  45
Northern Shoveler  8
Northern Pintail  18
Green-winged Teal (American)  27
Redhead  2
Ring-necked Duck  24
Surf Scoter  12
White-winged Scoter  2
Black Scoter  39
Long-tailed Duck  1
Bufflehead  1
Northern Gannet  1
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  2
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull (American)  9
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  16
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  10
Mourning Dove  16
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  0
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)1
Blue Jay  3
Carolina Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  1
Carolina Wren  5
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
American Robin  200
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  20
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)14
Fox Sparrow (Red)  4
White-throated Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  6
Northern Cardinal  9
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  5
Common Grackle (Purple)  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Finch  25
House Sparrow  7

These reports were generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Eurasian Wigeon (top left) [Photo by Roger Horn]

Baltimore Oriole [Photo by Roger Horn]