Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, March 16th, 2013

Cold, cloudy, and threatening rain, but some good birds to be found. On the beach, we found a Piping Plover and a close fly-by Great Cormorant. Ducks included Lesser Scaup, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Hooded Merganser, Bufflehead, the continuing Eurasian Green-winged Teal, as well as the usual Gadwall, and Mallard. One of our group saw a Virginia Rail briefly. Other interesting birds were Eastern Phoebe, Pine Warbler, and FOS Osprey for the group. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, Catherine Busch, and Chris Marks.
52 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  8
Wood Duck  1
Gadwall  25
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  20
Blue-winged Teal  1
Northern Shoveler  15
Northern Pintail  10
Green-winged Teal (Eurasian)  1
Green-winged Teal (American)  25
Lesser Scaup  8
scoter sp.  30
Bufflehead  4
Hooded Merganser  4
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Ruddy Duck  1
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  4
Double-crested Cormorant  4
Great Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  17
Great Egret  4
Turkey Vulture  8
Osprey  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
American Coot  17
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  1
Wilson's Snipe  2
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Mourning Dove  8
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
American Crow  20
Carolina Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  1
Carolina Wren  5
American Robin  75
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  50
Pine Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  2
Swamp Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  8
Red-winged Blackbird  75
Common Grackle  4
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
House Finch  1

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

Piping Plover [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Northern Pintail [Photo by Roger Horn]

Lesser Scaup [Photo by Roger Horn]