Cape May Point State Park - Wednesday, September 7th 2011

Water at the state park remains high after Hurricane Irene but the beach provided us with plenty of birds to enjoy. Migrant songbird numbers are currently low in southerly winds - but things should change soon... First returning Blue-winged Teal and a group of Northern Shovelers were nice bonuses, as was a busy party of birds feeding on Black Gum berries, which included at least five Baltimore Orioles and a mysterious gray-colored kingbird which never settled properly for us.
51 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose 8
Mute Swan 10
Mallard 14
Blue-winged Teal 1
Northern Shoveler 3
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 2
Glossy Ibis 30
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Semipalmated Plover 3
Killdeer 2
Sanderling 8
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 400
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull (American) 6
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 60
Caspian Tern 1
Black Tern 1
Common Tern 600
Forster's Tern 400
Royal Tern 25
Rock Pigeon 18
Mourning Dove 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Empidonax sp. 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 3
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Fish Crow 2
Tree Swallow 6
Barn Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 4
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 1
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 7
Cedar Waxwing 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Baltimore Oriole 5
American Goldfinch 2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)

Identification Parade: Forster's, Royal and Caspian Terns, and Great Black-backed and American Herring Gulls [photo by Karl Lukens]