Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, September 25th, 2013

There are more ducks today, numbers and species, with numerous Mallards, at least six Wood Ducks, Northern Shoveler, American Pintail, both Teal, American Wigeon and one Eurasian Wigeon drake. We started out immediately with an Alder Flycatcher, and Eastern Phoebe, working a dune area with Common Yellowthroat, Yellow, Palm, Prairie, Blackpoll, and Black-throated Green Warblers. Shorebirds included both Yellowlegs, Solitary, Least, and one Pectoral Sandpiper. Raptors included Northern Harrier, Osprey, Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawk, Kestrel, Merlin, and Peregrine Falcon. All this under a cloud of at least 2500 Tree Swallows. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Megan Crewe, Warren Cairo, Chris Marks, and Jesse Amesbury.
73 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  15
Wood Duck  7
American Wigeon  4
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  30
Blue-winged Teal  12
Northern Shoveler  8
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal  4
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Double-crested Cormorant  2
American Bittern  1
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  10
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  4
Osprey  4
Northern Harrier  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Killdeer  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
Least Sandpiper  1
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  35
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  25
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  20
Royal Tern  6
Rock Pigeon  4
Mourning Dove  10
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  1
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  2
Peregrine Falcon  2
Alder Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  10
Horned Lark  1
Tree Swallow  2500
Barn Swallow  5
Carolina Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Gray Catbird  1
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  7
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  1
Yellow Warbler  5
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  5
Prairie Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Savannah Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1     fem.
Bobolink  10
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Common Grackle  2
House Sparrow  1

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

American Bittern [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Horned Lark [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Solitary Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Tree Swallows [Photo by Karl Lukens]