Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, December 7th, 2013

A cold and breezy morning, but with good birds. Ducks included Hooded Merganser, drake Eurasian Wigeon, and a pair of Redheads. In the ocean/bay there were Black and Surf Scoter floating by and fly-by Red-throated Loons with a couple of Northern Gannets. On the beach we had a Peregrine Falcon eating some kind of prey. Overhead we had an adult Bald Eagle, a Baltimore Oriole in a cedar, and at Lily Lake a well-concealed immature Black-Crowned Night-Heron. Highlight was a Rufous Hummingbird at a feeder at Cambridge and Coral Aves. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, Mike Hannisian, and Nancy Watson.
54 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  2
Eurasian Wigeon  1
American Wigeon  15
Mallard  15
Northern Shoveler  4
Redhead  2
Ring-necked Duck  10
Lesser Scaup  8
Surf Scoter  15
Black Scoter  10
Long-tailed Duck  3
Hooded Merganser  6
Ruddy Duck  20
Red-throated Loon  8
Northern Gannet  2
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  5
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
American Coot  30
Sanderling  5
Purple Sandpiper  6
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  4
Great Black-backed Gull  6
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  6
Rufous Hummingbird  1     feeder Cambridge & Coral Aves.
Northern Flicker  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
American Crow  2
Carolina Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  1
Eastern Bluebird  10
American Robin  20
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  100
Cedar Waxwing  15
Palm Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler  15
Song Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  4
Dark-eyed Junco  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Finch  10
Purple Finch  3
American Goldfinch  10
House Sparrow  10

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

Palm Warbler [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Rufous Hummingbird [Photo by Karl Lukens]