It was another beautiful sunset in Cape May with some great birds. Tonight's highlight occurred while we were comparing Lesser Black-backed to Great Black-backed Gulls floating in front of us when a Parasitic Jaeger flew in and began harassing some of the nearby Laughing Gulls. We had great views of this jaeger within 50 yards from us. Leaders: Warren Cairo, Bill Smythe, and Deb Payson.
30 Canada Goose
2 Mallard
10 Northern Shoveler
1 Northern Pintail
1 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Egret
1 Snowy Egret
1 Green Heron
2 Osprey
1 Cooper's Hawk
2 American Oystercatcher
4 Killdeer
2 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
10 Sanderling
18 Least Sandpiper
5 Pectoral Sandpiper
2 Western Sandpiper
1 Wilson's Snipe
1 Parasitic Jaeger
40 Laughing Gull
4 Ring-billed Gull
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull
5 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Royal Tern
6 Black Skimmer
5 Mourning Dove
2 Northern Flicker
1 Blue-headed Vireo
5 Fish Crow
1 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Mockingbird
8 European Starling
4 Common Yellowthroat
3 Palm Warbler (Western)
1 Northern Cardinal
1 Indigo Bunting
20 Bobolink
5 Red-winged Blackbird
Number of Taxa: 39
