Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

Bunker Pond continues to provide very good birding. Shorebirds, waders, and terns are numerous. Along with the usual suspects, a Marbled Godwit spent 15-30 minutes on the pond giving good looks to all. We finished the walk at Cape May Point where we found one of the now-resident Eurasian Collared-Doves on a roof vent on Lincoln Ave. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Mike Hannisian, and Chris Marks.
52 species

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  20     w/young
Mallard  15
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  10
Great Egret  13
Little Blue Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  3
Semipalmated Plover  8
Killdeer  10
American Oystercatcher  6
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  12
Marbled Godwit  1
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  15
Least Sandpiper  20
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Stilt Sandpiper  16
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Laughing Gull  25
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  30
Least Tern  50
Gull-billed Tern  1     juv
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  5
Royal Tern  1
Black Skimmer  10
Rock Pigeon  2
Eurasian Collared-Dove  1     Cape May Point on roof vent on Lincoln Ave.
Mourning Dove  10
Eastern Kingbird  1
Fish Crow  5
Purple Martin  50
Tree Swallow  10
Barn Swallow  15
Carolina Wren  2
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  15
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  100
House Finch  2
House Sparrow  5

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Marbled Godwit [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Eurasian Collared-Dove