State Park Report: 2-3 Baird's Sandpipers

Karl Lukens reports on the CMBO walk at Cape May Point State Park today: "A nice variety of shorebirds, waders, and passerines in this varied habitat. Of interest was the Baird's Sandpiper at the 2nd Plover Pond, and later at the finish, 2 Baird's Sandpipers at Bunker Pond. Two birds? 3 birds?? - Karl (Judy, Tom, Steve, Bill Smythe)"

Location: Cape May Point SP
Observation date: 9/10/08
Notes: CMBO Walk-K,J,T,SW,BS,+11.Cldy,68,NE9.
Number of species: 61

Canada Goose 40
Mute Swan 6
Mallard 25
Northern Shoveler 5
Great Blue Heron 7
Great Egret 10
Snowy Egret 10
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 6
Bald Eagle 1
Semipalmated Plover 10
Killdeer 3
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Sanderling 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 10
Baird's Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 25
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Least Tern 1
Forster's Tern 10
Royal Tern 5
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 20
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 3
Red-eyed Vireo 5
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 5
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 2
Northern Parula 3
Yellow Warbler 4
Magnolia Warbler 2
Pine Warbler 1
Palm Warbler (Western) 4
Black-and-white Warbler 3
American Redstart 5
Common Yellowthroat 5
Northern Cardinal 5
Bobolink 50
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
House Finch 2
House Sparrow 5