WATERFOWL -
Poverty Beach (near Coast Guard Base at far east end of Cape May) is good spot for lingering waterfowl
GOOSE, Snow - Fulling Mill Rd (next to Menz Restaurant) Ft. Apache area
Brant
Canada
SWAN, Mute
DUCK, Wood - Fly over Hidden Valley; Beaver Swamp; Holmes Landing (Cape May
County Zoo)
Gadwall - Meadows; Bunker Pond (Cape May Point State Park); West Cape May
Impoundments; Coast Guard Ponds (Ocean Drive); Brigantine
American Wigeon - Brigantine; Heislerville
American Black
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)
Northern Shoveler - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); West Cape May
Impoundments
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); 5 at Brigantine
Ring-necked - pair at Brigantine
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Eider - Townsends Inlet (ocean & bayside)
Harlequin - Avalon Seawatch on 5/11
Surf Scoter - ocean at dune crossover by Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May);
Poverty Beach
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter - Poverty Beach; beach at Coral (Cape May Point)
Long-tailed - Sea Isle at 84 th
Street (bayside); Townsends Inlet Causeway
Bufflehead - female at Cape May Harbor (Delaware Avenue Cape May); park in small dirt patch
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser - free bridge Nummy Island
Ruddy - same area at Bufflehead in Cape May Harbor
GAMEBIRDS
PHEASANT, Ring-necked
GROUSE, Ruffed - none in Cape May County

TURKEY, Wild - dead end of Bayshore Road (past intersection New England &
Bayshore south of canal); field across from Wildwood Water Works on Rt 47
(just north of Menz Restaurant); numerous in northern Cape May County
BOBWHITE, Northern - on lawn at 215 Eldredge Avenue Villas
LOONS - HERONS
LOON, Red-throated - Poverty Beach on 5/12
Common - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); Poverty Beach; Coast Guard
Ponds
GREBE, Pied-billed - Lizard Tail Swamp (1½ mile walk) - beware of yellow trail
Horned
SHEARWATER, Sooty
Storm-Petrel, Wilson's
GANNET, Northern - anywhere off Cape May Point; Stone Harbor; Avalon
PELICAN, Brown - fly by piling Poverty Beach
CORMORANT, Great - fly by Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); off Meadows;
Coast Guard pilings at Poverty Beach
Double-crested
HERONS
American Bittern - Gull Pond Brigantine
Least Bittern - Gull Pond Brigantine; Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)
Great Blue - Bunker Pond; Two Mile Landing; Cape May County Zoo pond
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue - Beaver Swamp; Lake Lily (immature); Sea Isle south end fragmite area bayside (heronry); Sunset Lake (Wildwood)
Tricolored - Scotch Bonnet Marina; Bree-Z-Lee Marina; Two Mile; 34 th St bayside Avalon
Cattle Egret - Smith Farm PRIVATE PROPERTY (horse field just north of the
Beanery); Hidden Valley; McPherson Pond (Shunpike off Stimpson)
Green - Lake Lily (5/14)
Black-crowned Night
Yellow-crowned Night - 34 th
St. bayside (nest) Avalon; Heislerville; N side canal at West Cape May Impoundments (marshy area)
IBIS, Glossy
VULTURES, HAWKS, EAGLES
VULTURE, Black
Turkey
OSPREY
KITE, Mississippi - Beanery; Stevens Street
EAGLE, Bald - Cape Island over Higbee; New England Rd; Brigantine; Beaver
Swamp; Glade Road (active nest); Jakes
HARRIER, Northern - 1 at Jakes; 3 at Stimpson Landing; 1 at Meadows; Brigantine

HAWK, Sharp-shinned
Cooper's - Beanery, Cape Island Creek, Villas WMA
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered - calling at Lizard Tail Swamp power lines near impoundments
Broad-winged - Belleplain
Red-tailed - Higbee
FALCONS
American Kestrel - Lizard Tail Swamp at power line cut
Merlin
Peregrine - Brigantine; Sea Isle (nest) hack tower near causeway
RAILS & SHOREBIRDS
RAIL, Black - Jakes Landing
Clapper
King - Brigantine (5/10)
Virginia - Pond Creek Marsh; Jakes Landing; Turkey Point; Tyler Rd.; Tuckahoe
Sora
MOORHEN, Common - Davey’s Lake; Lake Lily (5/14)
COOT, American
PLOVER, Black-bellied
American Golden-
Semipalmated
Piping - Meadows (look in exclosures); Plover Pond (Cape May Point State Park)
Killdeer
OYSTERCATCHER, American
AVOCET, American
SANDPIPERS
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary - McPherson Pond (Shunpike near Stimpson)
Spotted
Upland - Cape May County airport restaurant parking near marker B19 (5/14)
Whimbrel - back bay marshes; Two Mile Landing; Shellbay Landing; Stone
Harbor Causeway
Marbled Godwit - Two Mile Landing across to Thorofare Island best at High Tide
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot - Norbury’s Landing (low to mid-tide); Cooks Beach; Nummy Island
(high tide east side)
Sanderling
Semipalmated
Least
White-rumped - Meadows, West Cape May Impoundments; Cove Pool (Mt.
Vernon, Cape May); Brigantine

Pectoral - 1 at Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); Meadows; West Cape May
Impoundments; McPherson’s Pond (Shunpike off Stimpson)
Purple - Avalon at 8 th
St Jetty near Seawatch; Concrete Ship; Townsends Inlet
Causeway (bayside base of bridge Avalon side)
Dunlin
Stilt - West Cape May Impoundments, Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)
Short-billed Dowitcher
SNIPE, Wilson's - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May)
WOODCOCK, American - Tyler Road @ Cedar Swamp Trail
PHALAROPE, Wilson's - Cove Pool (Mt. Vernon, Cape May); West Cape May
Impoundments
GULLS & TERNS
JAEGER, Parasitic - rips off St. Mary’s outgoing tide (Cape May Point - Lehigh Ave beach entrance)
GULL, Bonaparte's - south of Reed’s Beach; Douglas Park (across from Cape May
Lewes Ferry terminal); Meadows; Norbury’s Landing; Miami Ave & Tampa Ave at low tide best spot - Villas)
Little
Laughing
Ring-billed - along the Bayshore - Miami, Norbury’s Landing, Cook’s Beach
Herring
Iceland
Lesser Black-backed - Back side of Townsend Inlet marshes (young birds)
Glaucous
Great Black-backed
TERN, Least - Meadows, Cape May Point State Park
Gull-billed - Brigantine; Shellbay, Beaver Swamp
Caspian - Brigantine
Black - Cape May Point State Park; Meadows; Bunker Pond; Miami Avenue, rips off Cape May Point
Roseate - Coral Avenue Cape May Point (5/14 - not reported since)
Common
Forster's
Royal - pilings at Poverty Beach; rips off Cape May Point
SKIMMER, Black - Cooks Beach, Heislerville
DOVES - WOODPECKERS
DOVE, Mourning
PIGEON, Rock
CUCKOO, Black-billed
Yellow-billed
OWL, Barn
Eastern Screech-
Great Horned

Barred
Long-eared
Short-eared
Northern Saw-whet
NIGHTHAWK, Common - Brigantine; Davey’s Lake @ Higbee Beach; Indian Trail powerline cut
CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW - Cape May County Airport, Great Cedar Swamp (any dense, wet swampy woods)
WHIP-POOR-WILL - northern edge Cape May County; Woodbine; Belleplain
SWIFT, Chimney
HUMMINGBIRD, Ruby-throated - feeders at Center for Research & Education;
Michael & Louise’s house on Stevens St.; Sheila & Marleen’s on Bayshore Rd.
KINGFISHER, Belted - Cape May Canal at dead end of Bayshore; Tuckahoe Lake
WOODPECKER, Red-headed - Tamerlane Campground (Rt 9 Oceanview) OBEY 5
MPH SPEED LIMIT; oak trees by parking lot Villas WMA
Pileated
Red-bellied
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy
Hairy
Northern Flicker
PERCHING BIRDS
FLYCATCHER, Olive-sided
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied
Acadian - Belleplain (Cedar Swamp, near HQ, and Sunset Bridge)
Alder
Willow
Least
Eastern Phoebe - HQ Belleplain, bathrooms at northside of lake
Great Crested
Eastern Kingbird
VIREO, White-eyed
Blue-headed
Yellow-throated - Weatherby Rd.
Warbling
Red-eyed
LARK, Horned - Cape May County Airport; Woodbine Airport; Papermill Road;
Meadows
SWALLOWS
Purple Martin
Tree
Northern Rough-winged
Bank

Cliff
Barn
JAY, Blue
CROW, American
Fish
RAVEN, Common
CHICKADEE, Black-capped
Carolina
TITMOUSE, Tufted
NUTHATCH, Red-breasted
White-breasted
CREEPER, Brown
WREN, Carolina
House
Winter
Sedge
Marsh
KINGLET, Golden-crowned
Ruby-crowned
GNATCATCHER, Blue-gray
BLUEBIRD, Eastern - Beanery back field by vineyard (VINEYARD IS PRIVATE
PROPERTY); Villas WMA near bluebird boxes; Cedar Swamp Trail
THRUSHES
Veery
Gray-cheeked
Bicknell's
Swainson's
Hermit
Wood
ROBIN, American
CATBIRD, Gray
MOCKINGBIRD, Northern
THRASHER, Brown
STARLING, European
PIPIT, American
WAXWING, Cedar
WARBLER, Blue-winged - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Golden-winged - (female) north end of Villas WMA (5/14)
Tennessee
Nashville
Northern Parula - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Yellow - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Chestnut-sided - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Magnolia - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Cape May

Black-throated Blue
Yellow-rumped
Black-throated Green - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Blackburnian - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk; 5/14 Northwood Center
Yellow-throated - Belleplain near tall stands White Pine; Jakes Landing
Pine
Prairie
Palm
Bay-breasted
Blackpoll - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Cerulean
Black-and-white - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
American Redstart - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Prothonotary - Beanery, Cedar Swamp Trail at Tyler Road; Beaver Swamp
Worm-eating - Belleplain at damp woods in dense understory, Sunset Bridge area, and Pine Swamp Rd at 90° corner
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush - Belleplain around Sunset Bridge stream crossing
Kentucky - Belleplain; Lizard Tail Swamp; Fulling Mill Rd (airport side)
Mourning
Common Yellowthroat - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Hooded - Belleplain around Sunset Bride & edge of Cedar Swamp
Wilson's - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Canada - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk
Yellow-breasted Chat - Higbee Beach 5/14 morning walk; Langley Rd
Heislerville; Berrytown Road; Cape May Point State Park; Schellengers Tract
(Villas/Del Haven)
TOWHEE, Eastern
SPARROW, Chipping
Field
Vesper
Savannah - Jakes Landing; Magnesite Plant
Grasshopper - Higbee (5/13)
Nelson's
Saltmarsh - Ocean Drive at Bree-Z-Lee Marina - Mile Marker 1; Jakes Landing
Seaside
Song
Lincoln's - Cape May Point State Park
Swamp
White-throated - Northwood last seen on 5/11; Jacksonville (Villas); Villas WMA
White-crowned
Dark-eyed Junco
TANAGER, Summer - Belleplain Pine Swamp Rd., Franks Rd., Sumner Ave; Lizard
Tail Swamp; 2 nd Field Higbee (imm male) on 5/14

Scarlet
CARDINAL, Northern
GROSBEAK, Rose-breasted
Blue - 2 nd field Higbee; corner New England & Bayshore; Magnesite Plant near entrance; Center for Research & Education
BUNTING, Indigo
DICKCISSEL - Hidden Valley; St. Pete’s (Lake Dr) singing at dune crossover
BOBOLINK - back end of 2 nd field Hidden Valley; back end of cemetery on Shunpike
BLACKBIRD, Red-winged
MEADOWLARK, Eastern - end of Jakes Landing road across stream; E/SE end of
Sumner Rd; Meadows
BLACKBIRD, Rusty
GRACKLE, Boat-tailed
Common
COWBIRD, Brown-headed
ORIOLE, Orchard
Baltimore
FINCH, Purple
House
CROSSBILL, Red
SISKIN, Pine
GOLDFINCH, American
GROSBEAK, Evening
SPARROW, House
WRITE IN SPECIES
White-faced Ibis - Brigantine
Bar-tailed Godwit - Brigantine (Peregrine Tower - 6:30 PM 5/13)
Curlew Sandpiper - Medium red plumage in SE corner of Heislerville Impoundment along long dike toward woods