Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, December 15th, 2012

Usual waterfowl on the ponds. Spent time looking for the reported King Eider, but found only Black Scoters and 7 Common Eiders. Northern Gannets and Long-tailed Ducks were also seen. More time was spent looking for the Townsend's Warbler, which was seen briefly by others but unfortunately not by our group. We did however see Yellow-rumped and 1 Orange-crowned Warbler. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, Catherine Busch, and Carrie Bell.
47 species

Canada Goose  5
Mute Swan  2
Gadwall  40
American Wigeon  40
Mallard  20
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal  2
Common Eider  7
Black Scoter  8
Long-tailed Duck  8
Bufflehead  1
Red-throated Loon  1
Northern Gannet  10
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Turkey Vulture  8
Cooper's Hawk  1
American Coot  30
Sanderling  2
Bonaparte's Gull  2
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull  10
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Rock Pigeon  1
Eurasian Collared-Dove  2
Mourning Dove  5
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  5
Carolina Chickadee  5
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  15
Northern Mockingbird  2
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  15
Orange-crowned Warbler  1     seen by a few
Yellow-rumped Warbler  8
Fox Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  20
House Finch  8
Red Crossbill  50     flying & perched
American Goldfinch  10
House Sparrow  30

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

Eurasian Collared-Doves [Photo by Karl Lukens]