Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, May 7th, 2014

A few interesting waders were seen including a brief look at a Little Blue Heron, two Green Herons, and several Great Egrets. Along the beach we had many swallows with at least one Bank Swallow with the Northern Rough-wings, Tree, and Barns. We also had a Lesser Black-backed Gull, three Least Sandpipers, and several Least Terns. A couple of Piping Plovers were on the beach looking like a pair, as well as five American Oystercatchers (one on nest). Smaller birds of interest were House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Common Yellowthroats, Pine and Yellow-rumped Warblers. A pair of Blue Grosbeaks and Orchard Orioles sang for us. Two female Indigo Buntings, and a Scarlet Tanager were also nice to see. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, and Chris Marks.
60 species

Canada Goose  25
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  12
Red-throated Loon  3
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  30
Great Egret  4
Little Blue Heron  1
Green Heron  2
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  5
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Oystercatcher  5
Piping Plover  2
Least Sandpiper  3
Short-billed Dowitcher  10
Laughing Gull  20
Herring Gull  2
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Least Tern  5
Forster's Tern  8
Mourning Dove  5
Chimney Swift  4
Eastern Kingbird  1
Blue Jay  7
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  4
Purple Martin  100
Tree Swallow  5
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  15
Carolina Chickadee  3
House Wren  2
Carolina Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  4
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  10
Common Yellowthroat  7
Pine Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Prairie Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  4
White-throated Sparrow  5
Scarlet Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  5
Blue Grosbeak  2     pair
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  6
Orchard Oriole  2
House Finch  2
House Sparrow  2

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

Blue Grosbeak [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Blue Grosbeak [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Least Sandpipers [Photo by Karl Lukens]