Another hot and humid Wednesday morning greeted us as we headed out to explore Cape May Point. It was a quiet walk down to the beach but we were rewarded with a great chance to study adult and juvenile Great Black-backed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Laughing Gulls, Foster's Terns, & Common Terns. A close, flyby Brown Pelican was an added bonus. We flushed a juvenile, female Cooper's Hawk from a hedgerow and she flew so low over our heads that it was hard to focus on her at first! A final stop at the Hawkwatch Platform inside Cape May Point State Park afforded us looks at a juvenile Green Heron, Lesser Yellowlegs, and a Northern Shoveler. Leaders: Margeaux Maerz, Chris Marks, & Mike Crewe.
41 species
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
Mallard X
Blue-winged Teal 4
Northern Shoveler 1
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Brown Pelican 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 1
Osprey 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Oystercatcher 3
Semipalmated Plover 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Laughing Gull X
Herring Gull (American) X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 2
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern X
Royal Tern X
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
Mourning Dove 3
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 3
Tree Swallow X
Carolina Chickadee 4
Carolina Wren 5
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 12
Northern Cardinal 4
Bobolink 35
Red-winged Blackbird X
House Finch 5
House Sparrow X
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