Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

This morning's state park walk started under heavy - but dry - skies and, as it turned out, our very first segment proved the most exciting! Looking out over the beach revealed Bottlenose Dolphins, a passing Brown Pelican, and a very excited pair of Caspian Terns. The pools further on had a nice selection of shorebirds, including five Short-billed Dowitchers and a reasonably obliging White-rumped Sandpiper. A soggy shower cut the end of the walk short, but not before we had seen a pretty good range of birds.

52 species

Canada Goose  125

Mute Swan  7

Gadwall  3

Mallard  14

Brown Pelican  1

Great Egret  5

Snowy Egret  3

Tricolored Heron  1

Green Heron  1

Glossy Ibis  1

Osprey  2

Piping Plover  1

Killdeer  6

American Oystercatcher  2

Greater Yellowlegs  2

Willet  1

Ruddy Turnstone  2

Semipalmated Sandpiper  3

White-rumped Sandpiper  1

Short-billed Dowitcher  5

Laughing Gull  35

Herring Gull (American)  1

Great Black-backed Gull  12

Least Tern  15

Caspian Tern  2     Pair copulating on beach near bunker

Forster's Tern  12

Black Skimmer  9

Rock Pigeon  7

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  1

Eastern Kingbird  4

American Crow  1

Fish Crow  3

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  3

Purple Martin  50

Carolina Chickadee  2

Carolina Wren  2

American Robin  2

Northern Mockingbird  2

European Starling  5

Cedar Waxwing  2

Common Yellowthroat  2

Northern Parula  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  1

Indigo Bunting  3

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Common Grackle  4

Orchard Oriole  2

American Goldfinch  2

House Sparrow  5

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