The Back Bays of Cape May were alive with bird life, including the Brown Booby again sitting on channel marker 475 after a small leave of absence. Tricolored Herons were out and about, with a half a dozen being noted, and adult Yellow-crowned Night Herons were true crowd-pleasers. A wonderful trip with great viewing conditions.
Mallard 1
Brown Booby 1
Double-crested Cormorant 154
Great Blue Heron 11
Great Egret 26
Snowy Egret 45
Tricolored Heron 6
Black-crowned Night-Heron 12
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 8
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 14
Osprey 23
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Merlin 2
Clapper Rail 4
Black-bellied Plover 24
Semipalmated Plover 7
American Oystercatcher 19
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet 8
Whimbrel 4
Ruddy Turnstone 43
Sanderling 8
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
peep sp. X
Short-billed Dowitcher 5
Laughing Gull 76
Herring Gull 16
Great Black-backed Gull 37
Least Tern 3
Caspian Tern 1
Common Tern 49
Forster's Tern 65
Belted Kingfisher 1
Tree Swallow 215
Barn Swallow 6
Seaside Sparrow 6
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Boat-tailed Grackle 17
