Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

A nice variety of ducks were on the state park ponds on a cold and breezy morning. A few folks were lucky enough to see an elusive Orange-crowned Warbler on the Red Trail, but we could not find the Eurasian Green-winged Teal, that is until the end of the walk when we did go back and get good scope views of the "Teal". Otherwise we got the usual winter suspects, such as Carolina Wren, Fox, and White-throated Sparrows, and Mockingbird. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, Steve Weis, Catherine Busch, Cindy & Shaun Bamford, and Chris Marks.
45 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  8
Gadwall  25
American Wigeon  10
American Black Duck  2
Mallard  15
Blue-winged Teal  1
Northern Shoveler  15
Northern Pintail  10
Green-winged Teal (Eurasian)  1
Green-winged Teal (American)  10
Lesser Scaup  5
scoter sp.  1
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  1
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Ruddy Duck  6
Pied-billed Grebe  3
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Blue Heron  2
Turkey Vulture  4
Northern Harrier  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  9
Killdeer  3
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  3
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  10
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  3
Carolina Chickadee  5
Red-breasted Nuthatch  5
Carolina Wren  5
American Robin  4
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  30
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  8
Fox Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  2
Dark-eyed Junco  10
Northern Cardinal  5
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  6
House Finch  5
House Sparrow  8

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

The Eurasian Green-winged Teal (right) showing the horizontal stripe that distinguishes it from the American (left) [Photo by Karl Lukens]