It was a cloudy yet beautiful morning and a desire to study ducks led us away from the streets and into Cape May Point State Park this week. A quick check of the ocean from the dune crossover afforded us a nice study of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Royal Terns. A short walk down the edge of Bunker Pond revealed a nice collection of shorebirds and ducks, including Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, a Stilt Sandpiper, American Wigeon, and both Green-winged and Blue-winged Teals. The birds were especially cooperative with similar species sitting side-by-side in the easy light. The far Plover Ponds revealed a male Eurasian Wigeon in nearly full breeding plumage. The sudden appearance of a Green Heron and a handful of Pectoral Sandpipers were an added treat. Non-avian highlights include a mother White-tailed Deer with 2 fawns and an army of Atlantic-coast Leopard frogs. Leaders: Margeaux Maerz, Mike Crewe, Chris Marks, and Steve Weis.
38 species
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 47
Eurasian Wigeon 1 continuing
American Wigeon 4
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 26
Blue-winged Teal 12
Green-winged Teal 4
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 1
Osprey 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Lesser Yellowlegs 22
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 4
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull (American) X
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 65
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 12
Black Skimmer 1
Mourning Dove 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Fish Crow 2
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 10
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 4
Red-winged Blackbird 8
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
