A fun morning with plenty of signs of breeding activity and early fall migration. A family of recently-fledged Orchard Orioles shared a tree with a young male Blue Grosbeak and eight Wood Ducks graced Lighthouse Pond. Two Black-billed Cuckoos were chased around by cherry-eating American Robins - the cuckoos were likely after the hairy Fall Webworm caterpillars that are now fattening up on various tree leaves. At Bunker Pond, Short-billed Dowitchers, both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and several Least Sandpipers were present to add to two nice Solitary Sandpipers seen earlier. Glossy Ibises seemed ever-present overhead, an adult Bald Eagle cruised by in the distance and a southbound Double-crested Cormorant moved through. In addition to the birds, we notched up 16 species of dragonflies & damselflies.
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Pt.
Observation date: 7/7/10
Number of species: 61
Mute Swan 6
Wood Duck 8
Mallard 15
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 2
Glossy Ibis 45
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 6
Bald Eagle 1
Killdeer 10
American Oystercatcher 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Least Sandpiper 20
Short-billed Dowitcher 15
Laughing Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 6
Least Tern 20
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 12
Black Skimmer 25
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Black-billed Cuckoo 2
Chimney Swift 6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 6
White-eyed Vireo 1
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 50
Barn Swallow 6
Carolina Chickadee 8
Carolina Wren 6
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 6
European Starling 25
Cedar Waxwing 7
Common Yellowthroat 4
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 3
Bobolink 12
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Orchard Oriole 6
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 6
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
