I needed to smell the sea air so I took myself off for a couple of days out to Cape May. I left at 5am on Tuesday and missed the worst of the Philadelphia early morning traffic. I initially headed out to the Seawatch at Avalon. Huge flights of Cormorants, lots of Black and Surf Scoter, a few Gannets and Royal and Caspian Terns.
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| Surf Scoter |
When I reached Cape May I drove along Beach Avenue to find the Skimmers and Terns on the beach. I found several mixed groups, got my feet wet from walking too close to the incoming waves.
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| Royal Tern |
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| Royal Tern |
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| Forsters Tern |
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| Juvenile Black Skimmer |
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| Skimmers and Laughing Gulls |
Very hard to get a Skimmer on it's own to get an isolated shot. I didn't want to disturb them so screw it, here's a group shot.
After an hour or so I headed down to the Cape May Lighthouse and the Hawkwatch Platform.
It was a lot hotter than the forecasted 72f, that combined with the dew point made it feel like the 90's. Made me wish I had worn shorts and not jeans.
Loads of Peregrines coming through, they had 111 for the day. Merlin, Kestrel, Bald Eagle, Broadwings, Red-tails, Harrier's pretty much everything except for Red-shouldered. I went for a walk along the trails to get out of the sun and ran into a flock of Turkey.
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| Mockingbird |
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| Turkey's |
A final walk along the beach at dusk and I took a shot of the lighthouse in the distance.
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| Cape May Lighthouse |
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