Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Nice variety of shorebirds and waders in Bunker Pond including 5 Stilt, 2 Pectoral, Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers. Although the waders were numerous the "Mother-lode" was found after the walk at Lake Lily. Good terns in a variety of plumages but no unusual terns today. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, and Catherine Busch.
60 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  6
Mallard  20
Great Blue Heron  11
Great Egret  8
Snowy Egret  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  6
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  2
American Coot  1
Semipalmated Plover  4
Killdeer  7
American Oystercatcher  8
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  8
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Sanderling  30
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10
Least Sandpiper  25
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Stilt Sandpiper  5
Short-billed Dowitcher  25
Laughing Gull  25
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Least Tern  30
Common Tern  15
Forster's Tern  15
Royal Tern  10
Black Skimmer  25
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  5
Fish Crow  3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  8
Tree Swallow  5
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  10
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  4
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  1
Common Yellowthroat  4
Yellow Warbler  3
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  3
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  10
Orchard Oriole  1
House Finch  2
House Sparrow  5

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Stilt Sandpipers [Photo by Karl Lukens]

A congregation of Great and Snowy Egrets on Lake Lily [Photo by Karl Lukens]