Cape May Point - Saturday, July 30th 2011

Cape May Point State Park, Cape May, Jul 30, 2011 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Good birdy morning with highlights being the five to eight Sandwich Terns on the beach and a brief, fly-in fly-off, by an American Avocet. Good looks at Indigo Bunting and Orchard Orioles.
67 species

Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 6
Mallard 25
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 12
Little Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 10
Turkey Vulture 2
Semipalmated Plover 8
Killdeer 10
American Oystercatcher 1
American Avocet 1 /p
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 4
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Sanderling 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
Least Sandpiper 20
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 5
Short-billed Dowitcher 10
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Least Tern 10
Common Tern 50
Forster's Tern 20
Royal Tern 4
Sandwich Tern 5
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Fish Crow 3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5
Purple Martin 30
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 4
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 30
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 1
Orchard Oriole 4
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (
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Conmmon Terns still abound on the beaches at Cape May Point, but this Sandwich Tern was a nice addition to the walk list, on a weekend that saw up to nine of these wanderers at here.