Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

We spent most of our time looking at the Gulls, Terns, Ducks, etc., around Bunker Pond and the Plover Ponds. American Wigeon and Northern Shoveler were new ducks for the season for many. Several Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach. Good looks at Forster's and Common Terns on the pond pier railing. Most shorebirds were fly-overs. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Chris Marks, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo and Nancy Watson.
45 species

Canada Goose  75
Mute Swan  8
Gadwall  3
American Wigeon  2
Mallard  35
Blue-winged Teal  3
Northern Shoveler  3
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Brown Pelican  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  2
Osprey  2
Killdeer  2
American Oystercatcher  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  40
Sanderling  15
Semipalmated Sandpiper  3
Least Sandpiper  5
Pectoral Sandpiper  4
Laughing Gull  75
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  20
Lesser Black-backed Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  50
Caspian Tern  1
Common Tern  10
Forster's Tern  115
Royal Tern  10
Black Skimmer  15
Rock Pigeon  8
Mourning Dove  10
Eastern Kingbird  50
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  25
Barn Swallow  20
Carolina Wren  1
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  25
Palm Warbler  2
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Blue Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  1
House Sparrow  3

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