Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, July 27, 2019


A Yellow-billed Cuckoo made its presence known by giving its cackling call and then flew into a near tree. It proceeded to work its way down the trail, stopping a couple of times to grasp a morsel, and then was joined by another cuckoo. Though these are local breeders, we don't see them very often. Both Spotted Sandpiper and Solitary Sandpipers were feeding along pond edges, as well as a few Least Sandpipers.

Leaders : Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Michael McCabe, Alan Crawford, Ruth Bergstrom
49 species

Canada Goose  6
Mute Swan  48
Gadwall  4
Mallard  34
Mourning Dove  10
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Chimney Swift  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
American Oystercatcher  1
Killdeer  5
Sanderling  10
Least Sandpiper  4
Semipalmated Sandpiper  4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Laughing Gull  16
Herring Gull (American)  3
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Least Tern  5
Common Tern  14
Forster's Tern  5
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Brown Pelican (Atlantic)  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  2
Great Egret  1
Green Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  7
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey (carolinensis)  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3
Fish Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2
Purple Martin  46
Tree Swallow  3
Barn Swallow (American)  5
House Wren (Northern)  1
Carolina Wren (Northern)  8
American Robin  4
Northern Mockingbird  2
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  1
Field Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  14
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Common Grackle  3
Common Yellowthroat (trichas Group)  7
Northern Cardinal  7

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home)
Great Blue Heron photo by Kathy Horn

Barn Swallow photo by Kathy Horn

Yellow-billed Cuckoo photo by Kathy Horn