Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Wednesday walk at the state park provided us with some nice surprises today, as well as the delight of watching tiny American Oystercatchers babies taking their first tentative steps. A flock of 11 Glossy Ibises breezed all too quickly through, carrying with them an adult White-faced Ibis, while four White-rumped Sandpipers on Bunker Pond were a nice surprise. Two Yellow-breasted Chats were singing merrily in the park and a pair of Cedar Waxwings were carrying nest material.  Leaders: Mike Crewe, Chris Marks, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, and Warren Cairo.

55 species

Canada Goose  20

Mute Swan  20

Gadwall  3

Mallard  5

Black Scoter  1

Great Egret  1

Snowy Egret  3

Glossy Ibis  11

White-faced Ibis  1     Details to be submitted to state records committee

Black Vulture  2

Turkey Vulture  1

Osprey  2

Piping Plover  1

Killdeer  4

American Oystercatcher  4

Least Sandpiper  2

White-rumped Sandpiper  4

Laughing Gull  40

Herring Gull (American)  3

Great Black-backed Gull  1

Least Tern  35

Caspian Tern  2

Common Tern  1

Forster's Tern  20

Rock Pigeon  3

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  5

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Blue Jay  1

Fish Crow  2

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  4

Purple Martin  55

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  1

Carolina Chickadee  4

Carolina Wren  3

House Wren  2

American Robin  3

Gray Catbird  2

Northern Mockingbird  2

European Starling  6

Cedar Waxwing  2

Common Yellowthroat  3

Yellow Warbler  2

Pine Warbler  1

Yellow-breasted Chat  2

Northern Cardinal  6

Blue Grosbeak  4

Indigo Bunting  2

Red-winged Blackbird  12

Common Grackle  15

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

House Finch  1

House Sparrow  2

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