Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, August 17, 2019


The old adage about migrant warblers feeding with the local birds that know where the food is seemed to be in play today. Migrant songbirds had been pretty scarce until we heard a family of Carolina Chickadees feeding in the canopy overhead. Mixed in with the family of five were American Redstarts, Black-and-white and Yellow Warblers. There are quite a few juvenile-plumaged Little Blue Herons around currently, with one was feeding in the first plover pond, and two Tri-colored Herons soared right over our heads.

Leaders : Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Michael McCabe, Alan Crawford
59 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  68
Wood Duck  1
Mallard  55
Mourning Dove  12
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  5
American Oystercatcher  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  1
Sanderling  1
Least Sandpiper  6
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  10
Lesser Yellowlegs  6
Laughing Gull  35
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull (American)  2
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Least Tern  1
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  12
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Little Blue Heron  1
Tricolored Heron  2
Green Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey (carolinensis)  3
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
White-eyed Vireo  1
Fish Crow  2
Carolina Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  2
Purple Martin  5
Barn Swallow (American)  5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3
House Wren (Northern)  1
Carolina Wren (Northern)  7
European Starling  11
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  5
American Robin  5
Cedar Waxwing  18
American Goldfinch  6
Field Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  1
Orchard Oriole  3
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  25
Brown-headed Cowbird  40
Common Grackle  4
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat (trichas Group)  2
American Redstart  3
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  5
Northern Cardinal  9
Blue Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  1

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