Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Good waders including 30 Glossy Ibis and 3 Green Herons. An early American Coot was on Lighthouse Pond. A nice variety of shorebirds including an early White-rumped Sandpiper, both Yellowlegs, and Solitary and Spotted sandpiper. Passerines included Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, 3 Orchard Orioles and a Baltimore Oriole. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn.
60 species

Canada Goose  75
Mute Swan  10
Mallard  15
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Green Heron  3
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  30
Osprey  1
American Coot  1
Killdeer  25
American Oystercatcher  8
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  6
Least Sandpiper  15
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  25
Laughing Gull  35
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Least Tern  40
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  2
Royal Tern  5
Rock Pigeon  6
Mourning Dove  5
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  3
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  10
Purple Martin  75
Barn Swallow  2
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  2
House Wren  6
American Robin  10
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Common Yellowthroat  5
Yellow-breasted Chat  1     heard
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  3
Blue Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  8
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Orchard Oriole  3
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Finch  4
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  10

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Brown Pelican [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Ruby-throated Hummingbird