Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, July 9, 2016

While we saw many cool birds on this morning's walk - a nest of House Finches by the hawk watch, an early Black Scoter off the beach, young American Oystercatchers among the dune grasses, beautiful Wood Ducks on Lighthouse Pond East, a male Indigo Bunting gleaming again a pine trunk - the non-bird critters almost outdid them. We watched a Red-eared Slider laying eggs along the path, a Gray Tree Frog leapt off a park sign as a snake started up the post toward it, and Red Admiral butterflies were landing at our feet along the boardwalk.  Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, Kyle Chelius, and Cindy Bamford.
54 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  56
Wood Duck  2
Gadwall  3
Mallard  24
Black Scoter  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  3
Snowy Egret  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  18
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  4
American Oystercatcher  7
Killdeer  12
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Least Sandpiper  3
Laughing Gull  22
Herring Gull (American)  3
Great Black-backed Gull  9
Least Tern  6
Common Tern  18
Forster's Tern  11
Black Skimmer  5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  11
Chimney Swift  3
Northern Flicker  1
Fish Crow  3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  22
Tree Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  3
Carolina Chickadee  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  6
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  3
Cedar Waxwing  3
Common Yellowthroat  8
Yellow Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  4
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  19
Common Grackle  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
House Finch  6
American Goldfinch  2

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Southern Gray Tree Frog [Photo by Roger Horn]

Red Admiral [Photo by Roger Horn]

Red-eared Slider laying eggs [Photo by Kathy Horn]