Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

A nice variety of gulls and terns in various plumages to study on the beach. There were more ducks in number and variety on the ponds, including American Wigeon, numerous Blue and Green-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, and Northern Pintail. There was also a Pied-billed Grebe in the mix. Most interesting were two Little Blue Herons, each eating a large frog. It was like a National Geographic film moment which was neat to watch. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Megan Crewe, Karl Lukens, Mike Hannisian, Steve Weis, Chris Marks, and Mary Watkins.
61 species

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  35
Gadwall  8
American Wigeon  6
Mallard  100
Blue-winged Teal  20
Northern Shoveler  10
Northern Pintail  10
Green-winged Teal (American)  20
Surf Scoter  4
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  15
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  1
Little Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  4
Sharp-shinned Hawk  8
Cooper's Hawk  4
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Semipalmated Plover  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Ruddy Turnstone  4
Sanderling  10
Semipalmated Sandpiper  15
Parasitic Jaeger  1
Laughing Gull  300
Ring-billed Gull  8
Herring Gull (American)  20
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  100
Common Tern  50
Forster's Tern  50
Royal Tern  15
Black Skimmer  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  2
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  4
Fish Crow  1
Tree Swallow  25
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  15
American Pipit  2
Palm Warbler  5
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
House Finch  1
House Sparrow  2

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

Herring and Ring-billed Gulls [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Immature Little Blue Heron and frog [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Red-tailed Hawk [Photo by Karl Lukens]