Birding Cape May Point - Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

Amazing feeding frenzy over the rips off Coral Avenue with hundreds of Northern Gannets plunge-diving and Parasitic Jaegers double-teaming the terns and gulls. Also large numbers of Bonaparte's Gulls. Leaders: Brett Ewald, Kirsten Fuller, and Mary Watkins.
53 species

Mute Swan  7
Gadwall  6
American Wigeon  28
American Black Duck  2
Mallard  30
Northern Shoveler  5
Northern Pintail  1
Ring-necked Duck  9
Surf Scoter  3
Black Scoter  110
Northern Gannet  300
Double-crested Cormorant  80
Sharp-shinned Hawk  3
Cooper's Hawk  1
American Coot  2
Black-bellied Plover  2
Killdeer  16
Sanderling  9
Parasitic Jaeger -- Feeding frenzy over rips off Coral Avenue  12
Bonaparte's Gull -- Feeding frenzy over rips off Coral Avenue  300
Laughing Gull  50
Herring Gull (American)  42
Great Black-backed Gull  16
Forster's Tern -- Feeding frenzy over rips off Coral Avenue  200
Royal Tern  1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  7
Mourning Dove  35
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Merlin  1
Blue Jay  5
crow sp.  3
Tree Swallow  150
Carolina Chickadee  10
Red-breasted Nuthatch  6
Carolina Wren  4
Golden-crowned Kinglet  2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  45
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  70
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  120
White-throated Sparrow  8
Song Sparrow  6
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird   80
Common Grackle  30
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Finch  32
Purple Finch  20
American Goldfinch  3
House Sparrow  7

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