Thousands of swirling Tree Swallows greeted us at Two Mile Beach Unit of the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge for the EZ Birding walk this morning. Many Osprey were flying between ocean and pans carrying fish and three Bald Eagles were perched, surveying the pans. In addition there were many Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Double-crested Cormorants, and both Great and Snowy Egrets. Leaders: Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Janet Crawford, and Lee Smythe.
53 species
American Black Duck 12
Mallard 16
Black Scoter 11
Northern Gannet 4
Double-crested Cormorant 60
Great Blue Heron 19
Great Egret 20
Snowy Egret 10
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 14
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 2
Bald Eagle 3
Black-bellied Plover 3
Greater Yellowlegs 35
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 28
Dunlin 18
Laughing Gull 10
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 50
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 5
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 6
Merlin 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Crow 7
Fish Crow 2
Tree Swallow 6500 Swirling in air from Loran Tower to Wildwood Crest beaches; probably a conservative number
Bank Swallow 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 heard
Carolina Wren 2 heard
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 heard
Gray Catbird 7
Northern Mockingbird 3
Brown Thrasher 3
European Starling 50
American Pipit 2
Palm Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 23
Eastern Towhee 3 heard
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 3
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/content/nj)
