A breezy walk with a gusty SW wind blowing which kept songbird numbers down. However, the beach provided much to look at, including two fly-by Brown Pelicans and two Sandwich Terns roosting on the beach. With summer drawing to a close, ducks are returning to the ponds and we had plenty of opportunity for close study of all the ducks we saw. The Four Black-bellied Whistling-ducks on Lighthouse Pond gave us a nice finale.
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Pt.
Observation date: 9/8/10
Number of species: 64
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 4
Canada Goose 6
Mute Swan 13
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 8
American Wigeon 2
Mallard 35
Blue-winged Teal 45
Northern Shoveler 8
Green-winged Teal 2
Brown Pelican 2
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Egret 2
Osprey 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
American Oystercatcher 4
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Whimbrel 1
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Sanderling 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
Least Sandpiper 20
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 20
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull (American) 12
Great Black-backed Gull 100
Least Tern 3
Caspian Tern 1
Common Tern 15
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 40
Sandwich Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 20
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 300
Barn Swallow 8
Carolina Chickadee 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 3
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 40
Yellow Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 4
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Bobolink 15
Red-winged Blackbird 4
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 6
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
