Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon, Alan Crawford
Temp: 72° F
Winds: NE 8 mph
Weather Conditions: mostly cloudy
Though BirdCast showed that only a minimal number of birds had migrated over Cape May last night, there was lots of evidence of the passing season on this morning’s walk. Purple Martin numbers are down but Barn and Tree Swallow numbers are way up, with large flocks swirling around the dunes. A large group of Royal Terns were resting on the beach. A young, white-plumaged Little Blue Heron fed very cooperatively along the edge of one of the plover ponds shortly after we’d observed the similar Snowy Egret feeding in the adjacent pond. Prairie Warblers were numerous, a couple of Blue-winged Teal fed in the ponds and quite a few Eastern Kingbirds fed in the reeds around East Lighthouse Pond.
47 species
| Species | Count |
| Mute Swan | 30 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 2 |
| Mallard | 68 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 3 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 9 |
| American Oystercatcher | 3 |
| Killdeer | 1 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 1 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 |
| Ruddy Turnstone | 1 |
| Least Sandpiper | 1 |
| Laughing Gull | 30 |
| Herring Gull | 12 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 22 |
| Forster’s Tern | 1 |
| Common Tern | 2 |
| Royal Tern | 36 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 2 |
| Little Blue Heron | 1 |
| Snowy Egret | 1 |
| Green Heron | 1 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 2 |
| Turkey Vulture | 1 |
| Osprey (carolinensis) | 6 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
| Downy/Hairy Woodpecker | 1 |
| Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s Flycatcher) | 1 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 9 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 3 |
| American Crow | 2 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 5 |
| Tree Swallow | 180 |
| Purple Martin | 80 |
| Barn Swallow | 250 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 9 |
| Gray Catbird | 6 |
| American Goldfinch | 2 |
| Field Sparrow | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 6 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 4 |
| Common Grackle | 1 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 1 |
| Prairie Warbler | 6 |
| Northern Cardinal | 3 |
| Blue Grosbeak | 1 |
