Wednesday morning around Cape May Point State Park started how it finished - with plenty of shorebirds to enjoy. Actually, to start with, it was all a little crazy, as we homed in on a bunch of shorebirds arriving across the bay and giving us mere silhouettes to work with - the leader could have told us anything!! We finished with some great scope views of Least, Spotted and Semipalmated Sandpipers and Piping Plovers. In between all the shorebird fun, we found a nice selection of other birds, highlights including a singing male Yellow-breasted Chat, a sparkling male Scarlet Tanager and the nice find of a Gray-cheeked Thrush - though he was very elusive sadly.
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Pt.
Observation date: 5/12/10
Number of species: 69
Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 15
Gadwall 6
Mallard 8
Northern Gannet 10
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 3
Glossy Ibis 5
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Semipalmated Plover 12
Piping Plover 3
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 2
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Least Sandpiper 40
Short-billed Dowitcher 15
Laughing Gull 30
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Least Tern 30
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 20
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 20
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 6
White-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 2
Purple Martin 5
Tree Swallow 5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 60
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 6
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 12
Yellow Warbler 2
Pine Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 6
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 8
American Goldfinch 6
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