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

A beautiful day for birding with the usual suspects. Mute Swans becoming more numerous with 60+ on Bunker Pond. Shorebirds were few but we did have two Spotted Sandpipers, a couple of American Oystercatchers, and Lesser Yellowlegs which probably just arrived from the north. We finally got good looks at singing Indigo Bunting and House Wren. Heard and briefly saw an adult male Orchard Oriole. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kyle Chelius, & Cindy Bamford.
42 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  60
Gadwall  2
Mallard  10
Double-crested Cormorant  4
Great Egret  2
Glossy Ibis  4
Black Vulture  1
Osprey  7
American Oystercatcher  2
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Laughing Gull  25
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  8
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Mourning Dove  8
Chimney Swift  4
Downy Woodpecker  1
American Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  35
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  8
Carolina Chickadee  5
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  3
American Robin  10
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Common Yellowthroat  3
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  3
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
House Finch  2
House Sparrow  2

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Juvenile Barn Swallow [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Red-winged Blackbird [Photo by Karl Lukens]