Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, October 1st, 2014

A nice variety of ducks on the ponds including Mallard, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, a Black Duck and one Ruddy Duck. Lots of gulls and terns with at least one Lesser Black-backed Gull and a Caspian Tern. Also a nice show offshore with at least six Parasitic Jaegers working the feeding flock of gulls and terns. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Chris Marks, Steve Weis, and Mike Hannisian.
47 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  18
Gadwall  2
American Wigeon  8
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  25
Blue-winged Teal  12
Northern Pintail  3
Green-winged Teal (American)  4
Ruddy Duck  1
Northern Gannet  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  3
Northern Harrier  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk  10
Cooper's Hawk  4
Common Gallinule  1  Juvenile, seen after walk
Parasitic Jaeger  6
Laughing Gull  75
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  75
Caspian Tern  1
Forster's Tern  8
Royal Tern  10
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  12
Mourning Dove  10
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  4
Blue Jay  80
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  15
Tree Swallow  150
Carolina Wren  2
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  10
American Pipit  2     heard
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  20
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  2

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

Blue-winged Teal [Photo by Karl Lukens]