Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, December 8th, 2012

Lots of waterfowl including Buffleheads, Hooded Mergansers, Lesser Scaup, 1 White-winged Scoter, and 1 lingering female Canvasback. Another highlight was a very late Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.  Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, Catherine Busch, and Chris Marks.
59 species (+1 other taxa)

Brant  9
Canada Goose  25
Mute Swan  10
Gadwall  75
American Wigeon  75
Mallard  30
Blue-winged Teal  2
Northern Shoveler  20
Northern Pintail  15
Green-winged Teal  10
Canvasback  1
Ring-necked Duck  3
Lesser Scaup  6
White-winged Scoter  1
Black Scoter  2
scoter sp.  75
Bufflehead  10
Hooded Merganser  15
Ruddy Duck  50
Red-throated Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  3
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  75
Ruddy Turnstone  2
Sanderling  15
Bonaparte's Gull  15
Ring-billed Gull  20
Herring Gull  15
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Rock Pigeon  8
Eurasian Collared-Dove  1
Mourning Dove  30
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  1     after walk
Northern Flicker  1     after walk
Blue Jay  10
American Crow  6
Carolina Chickadee  8
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  30
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  10
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  10
Dark-eyed Junco  8
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  25
Baltimore Oriole  1     after walk - heard
House Finch  15
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  30

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

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher [Photo by Karl Lukens]

White-winged Scoter [Photo by Karl Lukens]