Sunday, July 29, 2007

Cape May Point State Park Saturday

Karl Lukens reports the following from CMBO's Saturday 7/28/07 walk at Cape May Point State Park:

A nice variety of shore and land birds this morning. Brown Pelicans off-shore, Black and Gull-billed Terns in Bunker Pond along with numerous waders including 1 white Little Blue. Shore birds included Least, Semi- sands, SB dowitchers, 2 Stilt, 3 spotted, & 1 Solitary Sandpiper. Woods birds included, 5-6 Orchard Orioles, 2 Yellow Warblers, Blue Grosbeak, 3 Indigo Buntings, as well as Downy and Red-bellied Woodpeckers. The complete list is below:

SPECIES SEEN 7/28/2007 in Cape May Point
71 species seen

Brown Pelican 3
Great Blue Heron 11
Great Egret 20
Little Blue Heron 1
Snowy Egret 25
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 5
Mute Swan 35
Canada Goose 18
Mallard 35
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 3
American Oystercatcher 1 /h
Semipalmated Plover 10
Killdeer 12
Piping Plover 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 18
Whimbrel 1
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 20
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 12
Semipalmated Sandpiper 12
Least Sandpiper 30
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Stilt Sandpiper 2
Great Black-backed Gull 10
American Herring Gull 10
Laughing Gull 50
Gull-billed Tern 1
Common Tern 10
Forster's Tern 20
Least Tern 70
Black Tern 1
Black Skimmer 1
Rock Pigeon 8
Mourning Dove 6
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Eastern Kingbird 2
Purple Martin 25
Tree Swallow 8
Barn Swallow 8
Cedar Waxwing 3
Carolina Wren 7
House Wren 4
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 3
American Robin 3
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 6
European Starling 12
House Sparrow 20
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 2
Yellow Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 6
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 /h
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 5

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