Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, January 5th, 2019


The State Park is always an eBird Hotspot but today we had a hotspot within a Hotspot! The White-crowned Sparrow had been seen the previous day but we were happy to see it was still there. The Dickcissel is probably the one that has been hanging around for a while but it had moved out of the State Park, down to a place on Lighthouse. Then, as we were sorting through the feeding sparrows, an Orange-crowned Warbler appeared low in the weeds, and then a Baltimore Oriole was found feeding in a cedar nearby. The rest of the walk was good but couldn't compete with this small area just off the parking lot.

Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Michael McCabe
43 species

Canada Goose  8
Mute Swan  4
Tundra Swan (Whistling)  8
Northern Shoveler  4
Gadwall  50
American Wigeon  12
Mallard  12
American Black Duck  3
Ring-necked Duck  1
Surf Scoter  6
Bufflehead  12
Ruddy Duck  6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  11
Mourning Dove  22
American Coot  18
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull (American)  3
Great Black-backed Gull  11
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Carolina Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  2
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1
Brown Creeper  1
Carolina Wren (Northern)  7
American Robin  5
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  8
House Finch  9
American Goldfinch  11
Field Sparrow  1
Fox Sparrow (Red)  3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1
White-crowned Sparrow (Dark-lored)  1
White-throated Sparrow  15
Song Sparrow  18
Baltimore Oriole  1     Photos
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  3
Northern Cardinal  11
Dickcissel  1
House Sparrow  13

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