Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Cape May Point: Brown Pelicans and Yellow-billed Cuckoo

This morning's Cape May Point State Park walk yielded 4 Brown Pelicans far offshore, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo along the red trail between the bird blind and the first platform, and the usual good stuff like scoped immature male Orchard Oriole and Indigo Bunting. I thought I heard a Least Bittern, and may have, along the Red Trail, but was not certain. The full list, bittern-less, is below.

Location: Cape May Point SP
Observation date: 6/17/09
Number of species: 55

Canada Goose 75
Mute Swan 15
Mallard 35
Brown Pelican 4
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 5
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 5
Piping Plover 4
American Oystercatcher 2
Laughing Gull 152
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Least Tern 110
Common Tern 5
Forster's Tern 19
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 10
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 25
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Willow Flycatcher 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue Jay 3
Fish Crow 10
Purple Martin 50
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Wren 3
American Robin 20
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 20
Common Yellowthroat 2
Yellow-breasted Chat 3
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 8
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 86
Brown-headed Cowbird 15
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 15
House Sparrow 20

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