Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, January 19th, 2013

Cold and very windy. Lots of water fowl on the ponds including Ring-necked Ducks, Lesser Scaup, Ruddy, and 1 female Eurasian Wigeon. Other birds included both White- and Red- breasted Nuthatches, and the continuing Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, Chuck & MJ Slugg, Warren Cairo, Steve Weis, Catherine Busch, and Chris Marks.
50 species

Canada Goose  8
Mute Swan  5
Gadwall  75
Eurasian Wigeon  1     female-bunker pond
American Wigeon  50
Mallard  30
Northern Shoveler  30
Northern Pintail  4
Ring-necked Duck  4
Lesser Scaup  6
Common Eider  1     1st winter
Black Scoter  4
Long-tailed Duck  5
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  5
Red-breasted Merganser  2
Ruddy Duck  15
Red-throated Loon  2
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  4
Double-crested Cormorant  8
Great Blue Heron  3
Black Vulture  8
Turkey Vulture  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
American Coot  75
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  3
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  3
Carolina Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
American Robin  75
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  10
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  5
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  1
House Finch  10
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  10

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Cedar Waxwings [Photo by Karl Lukens]