Labor Day was surprisingly quiet in terms of boat traffic in the back bay waters of Cape May, which made for very pleasant birding. Whimbrel migration was slowed to a trickle, but plovers and yellow-legs picked up the slack. More large terns, fishing the sounds and roosting on the old oysterbed, were observed by happy wildlife watchers.
29 species
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 75
Great Blue Heron 1 Only great blue heron seen at mouth of Spicer Creek as we returned to dock.
Great Egret 21
Snowy Egret 34
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 6
Glossy Ibis 1
Osprey 54
Bald Eagle 1 Seen, for second day in a row, on North side of Cold Spring Inlet.
Clapper Rail 7
Black-bellied Plover 45
Semipalmated Plover 8
American Oystercatcher 16
Spotted Sandpiper 5
Greater Yellowlegs 9
Whimbrel 4
Ruddy Turnstone 7
Semipalmated Sandpiper 210
Short-billed Dowitcher 12
Laughing Gull 210
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Caspian Tern 9
Common Tern 24
Forster's Tern 65
Royal Tern 8
Purple Martin 3
Tree Swallow 410
Red-winged Blackbird 4
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
