Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

A foggy day with some rain and some sunshine and surprisingly good birding. Lots of low swallows and swifts, and the warblers included several Yellow, Yellow-rumps, and an Ovenbird. FOY for many were the numerous Least Terns, a perched, singing adult male Orchard Oriole, and a perched, singing Blue Grosbeak. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo, and Chris Marks.
55 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  10
Gadwall  3
Mallard  6
Common Loon  4
Double-crested Cormorant  1300
Great Egret  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Piping Plover  3
Killdeer  3
American Oystercatcher  4
Greater Yellowlegs  8
Willet  1
Whimbrel  3
Least Sandpiper  3
Short-billed Dowitcher  6
Wilson's Snipe  1
Laughing Gull  20
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Least Tern  10
Forster's Tern  15
Mourning Dove  1
Chimney Swift  12
Eastern Kingbird  2
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  30
Tree Swallow  6
Barn Swallow  10
Carolina Chickadee  1
Tufted Titmouse  1
House Wren  4
Carolina Wren  3
American Robin  5
Gray Catbird  4
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  4
Ovenbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  10     heard
Yellow Warbler  3
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Song Sparrow  3
Swamp Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  5
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  4
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  5
Orchard Oriole  1
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  5

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