The ML Birders saw 47 species at Cape May and environs on a lovely warm, partly sunny day. Sites visited were the Light House and Hawk Watch Platform, a seaside meadow, the Audubon Center and Higbee Beach where a group of porpoises frolicked offshore for our entertainment.
Participants:
Earl and Sandy Evens, Peggy and Dino Fiabane, Marie Gleason, Robert Koch, Miriam Swartz, Louise Tompkins and Ro Wilson. Guests: Loretta Kamieniecki and Mike Zickler.
Bird List:
Double-crested Cormorant
Mute Swan
Black Swan
Canada Goose
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Mallard Duck
Black Duck
Ruddy Duck
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Hudsonian Godwit
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Mockingbird
Gray Catbird
Wild Turkey
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Tufted Titmouse
Eastern Phoebe
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Magnolia Warbler
Pine Warbler
White-throated Sparrow
House Sparrow