This morning's Bird Walk for All People found a Baird's Sandpiper on the second plover pond at Cape May Point State Park, where they've been of late. Many of the shorebirds seemed to have cleared out of the state park, as has the eel-eating egret fest that was going on there last week. Interestingly, among the lingerers were several injured birds, all apparently with leg problems. In this category we saw Semi-palmated Plover, and Semi-palmated and Least Sandpipers.
A few Peregrines came over the platform, along with a lovely juv. harrier that spent much of the morning hunting the marsh in front of the platform. The full list is below.
Location: Cape May Point SP
Observation date: 9/11/08
Notes: CMBO'S BIRD WALK FOR ALL PEOPLE
Number of species: 68
Canada Goose 20
Mute Swan 10
American Wigeon 2
Mallard 25
Blue-winged Teal 10
Northern Shoveler 10
Green-winged Teal 25
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 5
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 10
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 2
American Kestrel 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Semipalmated Plover 2
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5
Least Sandpiper 10
Baird's Sandpiper 1
Wilson's Snipe 1
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Forster's Tern 20
Royal Tern 10
Black Skimmer 15
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 10
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 1
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 5
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 5
Magnolia Warbler 1
American Redstart 2
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 25
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 5
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