Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, January 2nd, 2016

Day 2 of 2016. Starting off the new year adding to our freshly started 2016 species list. It was a beautiful, sunny, cold day with low wind. The ducks were in their usual finery at Lake Lily, Lighthouse and Bunker ponds. Along the dunes, Lesser Black-backed Gull and a Herring Gull were side by side.  The jetty at St. Mary's afforded some nice looks at Ruddy Turnstones feeding. Its diet when breeding is predominantly insects, but this time of year their foods are extremely diverse, ranging from coastal invertebrates to small fish, carrion, and human garbage.  Leaders: Roger Horn and Karl Lukens.
41 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  35
Mute Swan  5
Gadwall  14
American Wigeon  18
Mallard  45
Northern Shoveler  50
Green-winged Teal (American)  2
Ring-necked Duck  12
Lesser Scaup  2
Greater/Lesser Scaup  1
White-winged Scoter  1
Surf/Black Scoter  3
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  8
Red-throated Loon  1
Common Loon  1
Northern Gannet  9
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  5
American Coot  20
Ruddy Turnstone  3
Ring-billed Gull  12
Herring Gull (American)  18
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  6
Mourning Dove  10
Northern Flicker(Yellow-shafted) 5
Blue Jay  1
Carolina Chickadee  9
Carolina Wren  5
American Robin  80
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  12
Cedar Waxwing  16
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)40
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  3
White-throated Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  7
Red-winged Blackbird  2
House Finch  12
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  15

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

Bufflehead [Photo by Roger Horn]