Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

Although waterfowl are slowly leaving, there still were a good variety including Blue-winged Teal, American Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Lesser Scaup, Black Duck, Buffleheads, as well as scoters, and a Horned Grebe. Other birds of interest were a Wild Turkey calling, Eastern Bluebird, Wilson's Snipe, and 3 Pine Warblers. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo, and Chris Marks.
61 species

Brant  6
Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  10
Gadwall  4
American Wigeon  4
American Black Duck  3
Mallard  15
Blue-winged Teal  1
Northern Shoveler  12
Northern Pintail  4
Green-winged Teal  2
Ring-necked Duck  1
Lesser Scaup  7
Surf Scoter  8
Black Scoter  8
Long-tailed Duck  1
Bufflehead  1
Hooded Merganser  2
Ruddy Duck  4
Wild Turkey  1     heard
Red-throated Loon  10
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  2     eating large fish
Horned Grebe  1
Northern Gannet  15
Double-crested Cormorant  8
Great Blue Heron  20     flock of 19 low over water from DE.
Turkey Vulture  7
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  2
American Oystercatcher  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1     heard
Wilson's Snipe  1
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  6
Northern Flicker  3
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  5
Carolina Chickadee  5
Carolina Wren  4     heard
Eastern Bluebird  1
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  10
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  5
Pine Warbler  3
Yellow-rumped Warbler  2
Field Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  5
Northern Cardinal  6
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  7
House Sparrow  1

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

Black Duck [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Scaup [Photo by Karl Lukens]