July Arrives In Cape May- State Park Notes

[A most cooperative Yellow-breasted Chat showing off at the State Park on this first morning of July. Photo by Karl Lukens.]

"CMBO Cape May Point Walk at the State Park. For this walk there are several target birds and we got all but one. We got several Indigo Buntings, heard and saw fly 2 Willow Flycatchers, heard 3 Chats and got one in the scope, had nice scope views of an adult male Orchard Oriole, but missed the Blue Grosbeak. Good views of the usual terns but no unusual terns or gulls. A little rain shower caught us as we finished."

- Karl, (Steve, Patty, Tom)

In other news, a Sandwich Tern was loafing on the inaccessible walkway over Bunker Pond this afternoon, and a Roseate Tern was seen on the beach between the State Park and the Meadows late this morning.

[Male Orchard Oriole also showing off at the State Park this morning.
Photo by Karl Lukens.]

Location: Cape May Point SP
Observation date: 7/1/09
Notes: CMBO Trip-K,SW,PR,+7.Shwr,70,s2.
Number of species: 48

Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 4
Mallard 30
Great Egret 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 2
Laughing Gull 30
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Least Tern 10
Common Tern 15
Forster's Tern 25
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 5
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Willow Flycatcher 2 heard
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 50
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1 after walk
Carolina Wren 5
House Wren 1 after walk
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 1 after walk
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 5
Cedar Waxwing 8
Common Yellowthroat 4
Yellow-breasted Chat 2 /p
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 4
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 20
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
Orchard Oriole 1 /p
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 5

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