Offshore, Northern Gannets were attracted in close to feed around a large school of Bottle-nosed Dolphins and a scattering of Red-throated Loons and fly-by Black and Surf Scoters gave us plenty to look at.
Common Yellowthroat singing at Cape May Point State Park this morning [photo by Karl Lukens]
The full bird list follows:
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Pt.
Observation date: 4/21/10
Number of species: 53
Canada Goose 6
Mute Swan 7
Gadwall 2
Mallard 8
Surf Scoter 20
Black Scoter 25
Red-throated Loon 10
Common Loon 1
Northern Gannet 100
Double-crested Cormorant 120
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Merlin 1
American Coot 2
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 2
Willet 8
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Laughing Gull 20
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Forster's Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 12
Mourning Dove 4
Great Horned Owl 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 8
Purple Martin 12
Tree Swallow 3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 5
Carolina Wren 6
American Robin 10
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 4
Pine Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Common Grackle 40
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)
