What a great walk we had this morning, as Bunker Pond becomes the focus of attention with birds changing daily there. This morning we found an abundance of herons and egrets to study and plenty of time to scan through and find a juvenile Little Blue Heron amongst a flying group of Snowy Egrets. Snowies can be confusing this time of year as young birds have such an array of different color bare parts - we found one with a yellow bill! Most also have greenish legs too, so telling them from Little Blues can be tricky without care.
A single Pectoral Sandpiper lurked on one of the back ponds, a Spotted Sandpiper was still - well, spotty, and a Piping Plover still had two chicks in tow - though growing rapidly. Good numbers of Bottlenose Dolphins fed offshore and there were signs that warbler migration is but a quick gasp of admiration away as we totalled at least 12 Yellow Warblers passing overhead and uttering typical migration flight calls.
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Pt.
Observation date: 7/21/10
Number of species: 69
Canada Goose 85
Mute Swan 12
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 40
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 23
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 25
Little Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 16
Osprey 1
Piping Plover 3
Killdeer 5
American Oystercatcher 5
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 3
Willet 1
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Sanderling 22
Least Sandpiper 25
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 400
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 30
Least Tern 20
Common Tern 15
Forster's Tern 50
Black Skimmer 10
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 18
Chimney Swift 9
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 100
Tree Swallow 200
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 35
Cedar Waxwing 6
Yellow Warbler 12
Common Yellowthroat 6
Northern Cardinal 6
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 4
Red-winged Blackbird 35
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 12
Orchard Oriole 6
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow 4
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
