"CMBO Birding Cape May Point Walk. An interesting birding day with a fly over of 3 Snowy Egrets and 2 Tricolored Herons. Nice looks at a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, an Eastern Kingbird on nest, and perched up Blue Grosbeak, Yellow-breasted Chat, and Orchard Oriole. On the down side we watched a Fish Crow get dive bombed while it stole/ate eggs from a Least Tern nest. "
[Glossy Ibis, state park today. Photos by Karl Lukens.]
[Blue Grosbeak, a second calendar year male]Location: Cape May Point SP
Observation date: 6/2/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-KL,SW,WC,TP,+4.Clr,72,SW3.
Number of species: 57
Canada Goose 35
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 2
Mallard 10
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 3
Tricolored Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 1
Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 2
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Piping Plover 3
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 15
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 /p
Chimney Swift 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 5 1 on nest
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 5 1 eating Least tern eggs!
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4
Purple Martin 50
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 4
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 5
Cedar Waxwing 8
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 6
Yellow-breasted Chat 2 /p
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
Orchard Oriole 3 /p
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 5
