Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, August 10, 2019


The variety of bird species is on the rise as southward migration continues. Most of the Purple Martins have left for staging areas but warblers have started to trickle through. A flock of thirty Brown Pelicans feeding offshore in the rips was quite a surprise. 

Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Michael McCabe, Deb Payson, Alan Crawford
51 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  40
Mute Swan  48
Mallard  75
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  1
American Oystercatcher  3
Killdeer  6
Sanderling  1
Least Sandpiper  7
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs  7   
Laughing Gull  100
Herring Gull (American)  12
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Common Tern  15
Forster's Tern  25
Common/Forster's Tern  75
Black Skimmer  2
Brown Pelican (Atlantic)  30
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  2
Great Egret  3
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  5
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey (carolinensis)  3
Bald Eagle  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
White-eyed Vireo  1
American Crow  2
Fish Crow  3
Carolina Chickadee  2
Purple Martin  6
Tree Swallow  2
Barn Swallow (American)  10
Carolina Wren (Northern)  8
European Starling  14
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
American Robin  2
Cedar Waxwing  4
American Goldfinch  2
Field Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  120
Common Grackle  4
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat (trichas Group)  6
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1
Northern Cardinal  9
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  4

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