Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, December 1st, 2012

Lots of water fowl on Bunker Pond, Lily Lake, Lighthouse Pond, and the Plover Ponds. Highlights were 2 female Red Heads, 1 Female Canvasback, Hooded Mergansers, Northern Pintails, 1 Cackling Goose, 1 Common Eider in the surf, and loads of Ruddy Ducks. Five sightings of Red Crossbill flocks  calling and flying about, and some even perched for scope looks. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, Steve Weis, and Warren Cairo.
61 species

Brant  5
Cackling Goose  1     Lily Lake
Canada Goose  75
Mute Swan  12
Gadwall  30
American Wigeon  30
Mallard  10
Northern Shoveler  15
Northern Pintail  6
Green-winged Teal  2
Canvasback  1     Fem. 3rd plover pond
Redhead  2     Fem.
Ring-necked Duck  2
Lesser Scaup  4
Common Eider  1
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  4
Ruddy Duck  30
Red-throated Loon  5
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  7
Turkey Vulture  3
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  40
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Sanderling  8
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  15
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  60
Rock Pigeon  2
Eurasian Collared-Dove  1
Mourning Dove  10
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  1
Carolina Chickadee  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  15
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  15
Cedar Waxwing  4
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  30
House Finch  10
Red Crossbill  45     Some in scope feeding. 3 sightings group 10-12. 2
sightings group 25-30.
House Sparrow  10

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Red Admiral [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Red-breasted Nuthatch [Photo by Karl Lukens]