Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, July 28th, 2012

Lots of shorebirds and waders in Bunker Pond. Of note was a juvenile Gull-billed Tern on the island with many other terns and 2 juvenile Little Blue Herons. Made for nice comparisons between Little Blue and Snowy Egret. Numerous Orchard Orioles in the woods as well as Blue Grosbeak and Indigo Bunting. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, and Catherine Busch.
64 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  20
Great Blue Heron  9
Great Egret  12
Snowy Egret  5
Little Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  5
Osprey  1
Semipalmated Plover  4
Killdeer  10
American Oystercatcher  7
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Willet  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Sanderling  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10
Least Sandpiper  20
Stilt Sandpiper  5
Short-billed Dowitcher  10
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Least Tern  50
Gull-billed Tern  1
Common Tern  40
Forster's Tern  40
Royal Tern  5
Black Skimmer  10
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  15
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  4
Fish Crow  5
Purple Martin  50
Tree Swallow  40
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  5
Carolina Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  2
Carolina Wren  3
House Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
American Robin  10
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  20
Cedar Waxwing  1
Common Yellowthroat  4
Yellow Warbler  3
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  3
Blue Grosbeak  3
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  6
Orchard Oriole  6
House Finch  1
House Sparrow  20

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Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron [Photo by Karl Lukens] 

Juvenile Gull-billed Tern waiting to be fed (with no adult in sight) [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Juvenile Gull-billed Tern preening [Photo by Roger Horn]

Juvenile Little Blue Heron with 2 Great Egrets [Photo by Roger Horn]

A cooperative Common Yellowthroat [Photo by Roger Horn]