Road Scholar at Cape May 4

A final treat was a boat trip through the marshlands behind Wildwood on the Osprey.

The osprey have become so abundant here that they nest on platforms, as you see here, and there are even osprey nesting on the ground.

A great egret and a snowy egret.

A black-backed gull.

Dunlin in their breeding plumage.

Black-bellied plovers with black bellies!

We were seeing one of the largest areas of nesting laughing gulls.

An oystercatcher in the middle of all the nesting gulls.

In the morning on the Red Trail we had seen this American robin.

A magnolia warbler.

A mother swan and cygnet - the father was busy chasing away some Canada geese.

On the way home we saw the brown thrasher again.

As the sun sets we say good-bye, but we shall return in October.