Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

Bunker Pond held one early Green-winged Teal and some good waders including Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, three Little Blue Herons, and fly-over Glossy Ibis and Black-crowned Night-Heron. Shorebirds included Short-billed Dowitcher, both yellowlegs, a Western Willet, Semipalmated, Least, and Solitary Sandpipers, a fly-over Black-bellied Plover and the highlight, an American Golden-Plover. Other birds of interest were Royal Terns, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Blue Grosbeak, and many swallows. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Chris Marks, Mike Hannisian, and Catherine Busch.
66 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  35
Mallard  20
Green-winged Teal  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  3
Little Blue Heron  3
Green Heron  3
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  6
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  3
Cooper's Hawk  1
American Oystercatcher  3
Black-bellied Plover  1
American Golden-Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  2
Solitary Sandpiper  6
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Willet (Western)  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  20
Sanderling  35
Least Sandpiper  8
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2
Short-billed Dowitcher  8
Laughing Gull  150
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  75
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  10
Royal Tern  10
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  10
Mourning Dove  40
Chimney Swift  4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  5
Downy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
White-eyed Vireo  1
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  1
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  75
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  75
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  15
Cedar Waxwing  4
Common Yellowthroat  5
American Redstart  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  5
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  20
Red-winged Blackbird  60
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  5

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

Solitary Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]