Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Lots of birds flying, mostly Yellow-rumped Warblers, Tree Swallows, Pine Siskins, Red-winged Blackbirds, Eastern Bluebirds, and American Robins. Nice variety of ducks on the pond and good Northern Gannet and tern show off shore, with up to 5 Parasitic Jaegers in the mix. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Chris Marks, and Nancy Watson.
70 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  10
Wood Duck  2
Gadwall  8
American Wigeon  35
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  30
Blue-winged Teal  2
Northern Shoveler  20
Northern Pintail  15
Green-winged Teal  25
Surf Scoter  30
scoter sp.  100
Ruddy Duck  2
Red-throated Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  10
Northern Gannet  25
Double-crested Cormorant  50
Great Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  4
Sharp-shinned Hawk  3
Cooper's Hawk  2
American Coot  20
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Sanderling  35
Stilt Sandpiper  3
Laughing Gull  2
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Forster's Tern  30
Royal Tern  15
Black Skimmer  5
Parasitic Jaeger  5
Rock Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  10
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  15
Merlin  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  20
American Crow  5
Tree Swallow  35
Barn Swallow  4
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
Carolina Wren  4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  4
American Robin  30
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  50
American Pipit  4
Cedar Waxwing  5
Palm Warbler  3
Yellow-rumped Warbler  60
Savannah Sparrow  5
Song Sparrow  3
Swamp Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  100
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  10
Purple Finch  1
House Finch  10
Pine Siskin  25
American Goldfinch  15
House Sparrow  5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

 Palm Warbler - Yellow or Eastern subspecies [Photo by Karl Lukens]