Monday, July 23, 2007

An evening at the Cape May Point State Park- 7/22/07

Since it was such a beautiful day yesterday, after work we decided to take a stroll around the State Park to see if we could find the Black tern that has been hanging around the last couple of days.

Well, no luck with the tern but a list of what we did observe is below. With the rain this morning I'm glad I took that walk yesterday. Migration just isn't strong enough yet for me to want to get out of bed and bird in the rain.

Location: Cape May County, NJ, US
Observation date: 7/23/07
Notes: Cape May Point State Park
Number of species: 48
Canada Goose 34
Mute Swan 50
Mallard 25
Great Blue Heron 18
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 1
Glossy Ibis 2
Osprey 4
Cooper's Hawk 3 - young birds, fledged from a nest at the St. Park. They were quite obvious as they were chasing each other around and calling quite a bit.

Semipalmated Plover 4
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 12
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 48
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 50
Herring Gull 35
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Common Tern X
Forster's Tern 26
Least Tern 50
Rock Pigeon 18
Mourning Dove 12
Chimney Swift 6
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Kingbird 6
Fish Crow 3
Purple Martin 25
Tree Swallow 13
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 12
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 1
American Robin 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 3
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 2
Bobolink 2
Red-winged Blackbird 16
Common Grackle 6
Orchard Oriole 4
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 2
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)

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