Birding Cape May Point - Friday, August 4th, 2017

We're getting used to being greeted in the State Park by the sound of the calling bobwhite; there are still at least three present in the area from the Coast Guard release earlier this year. Orchard Orioles, which breed in the park, have been pretty quiet in recent weeks but today we had four young or female birds chasing each other around in the back woods. The whole park is beautiful with wildflowers now, with lots of meadow beauties, rose and swamp mallows, and ripening beach plums, Arrowwood Viburnum berries and elderberry. Leaders: Kathy Horn, Kyle Chelius, Karl Lukens, Michael McCabe, & Cindy Bamford.
55 species

Canada Goose  19
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  14
Northern Bobwhite  1
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  2
Great Egret  5
Green Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  2
American Oystercatcher  4
Killdeer  1
Sanderling  14
Short-billed Dowitcher  7
Laughing Gull  12
Great Black-backed Gull  13
Least Tern  9
Common Tern  9
Forster's Tern  19
Royal Tern  4
Black Skimmer  3
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
White-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  1
Fish Crow  2
Purple Martin  28
Tree Swallow  6
Barn Swallow (American)  2
Carolina Chickadee  7
Tufted Titmouse  2
House Wren  3
Carolina Wren  6
American Robin  15
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  2
Cedar Waxwing  9
Common Yellowthroat  6
Yellow Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  8
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  11
Common Grackle (Purple)  2
Orchard Oriole  4
American Goldfinch  3

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Swamp Rose Mallow [Photo by Kathy Horn]

Common Yellowthroat [Photo by Karl Lukens]