A great day for typical Cape May birding spectacles with migrants criss-crossing the parking lot, a mass of terns in the rips, on the beach and on the ponds and a nice range of herons, egrets and shorebirds.
71 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 65
Mute Swan 22
Gadwall 10
Mallard 15
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 4
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 1
Semipalmated Plover 10
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 3
American Oystercatcher 6
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 12
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Sanderling 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Least Sandpiper 15
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 250
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull (American) 10
Great Black-backed Gull 6
Least Tern 20
Caspian Tern 3
Black Tern 2
Common Tern 450
Forster's Tern 400
Royal Tern 6
Rock Pigeon 22
Mourning Dove 12
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Empidonax sp. 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
Eastern Kingbird 20
Fish Crow 3
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 8
Barn Swallow 15
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 8
American Robin 20
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 6
European Starling 45
Cedar Waxwing 1
Northern Waterthrush 1
Black-and-white Warbler 5
Common Yellowthroat 1
American Redstart 2
Yellow Warbler 6
Pine Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 2
Bobolink 10
Red-winged Blackbird 145
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 20
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 12
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Black Terns at Bunker Pond - juvenile/1st winter above, adult below. [Photos by Karl Lukens]
