Leaders: Roger Horn, Holly & Mark Lemieux.
Temp: 41° F
Winds: NE 14 mph
Weather Conditions: rain
Drizzly morning walk at Cape May Point State Park. Spring is here though it didn’t feel like it as cold east winds kept migration down overnight. We started our walk down the Red trail and had a flock of Great Egrets and a few Snowy Egrets on Lighthouse Pond.
The Blue and Yellow trails had the usual cast of Northern Cardinals, Northern Flickers and a Brown Thrasher chortled loudly while only allowing us a glimpse of itself. Red-winged Blackbirds sang profusely along the Reeds while Field Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers fed on the ground near the “plover ponds”.
We viewed from the dune overlook Common Loons, Red-throated Loons Red-breasted Mergansers and a few Northern Gannets in and over the waters. The Surf and Black Scoters continue to fly north out of the bay. 40 species.,”Not too shabby”.
40 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 5 |
| Mute Swan | 9 |
| Mallard | 4 |
| Black Scoter | 2 |
| Surf/Black Scoter | 20 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 3 |
| Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 2 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 |
| Laughing Gull | 4 |
| American Herring Gull | 10 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 3 |
| Red-throated Loon | 2 |
| Common Loon | 3 |
| Northern Gannet | 5 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 5 |
| Snowy Egret | 3 |
| Great Egret | 11 |
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 1 |
| Osprey | 4 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 1 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 6 |
| American Kestrel | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 2 |
| American Crow | 3 |
| Fish Crow | 4 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 5 |
| Tree Swallow | 3 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Eastern) | 1 |
| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 4 |
| European Starling | 1 |
| Brown Thrasher | 2 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
| American Robin | 2 |
| House Finch | 2 |
| Field Sparrow | 6 |
| Eastern Towhee (Red-eyed) | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 16 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 9 |
| Northern Cardinal | 13 |
Blog write-up and eBird list by Roger Horn
