First Day of Home Visit to Cape May!

This is a belated report with pics from Friday, April 26.
The first full day home in Cape May, to rest and visit family and friends, was of course partially spent out in the field on my home turf where I started birding. I had an amazing reunion with some unexpected bonus birds. I headed to Cape May Point State Park. I fell in love all over again with Common Yellowthroats, Northern Cardinals, Carolina Wrens, and even Laughing Gulls. Nice surprises were 6 species of Swallows (missed the reported Cave though), a single early Blackpoll Warbler, nice close looks at a handsome Palm Warbler (foraging on the ground about 6 feet away!), a flyover Green Heron, a preening Wilson's Snipe hiding along the edge of Bunker Pond, and a Merlin flying high over the pond, along with many other raptors including 2 sub-adult Bald Eagles, and several Broad-winged Hawks. But the raptor of the day, actually, THE BIRD of the day, was an almost unbelievable Swallow-tailed Kite, cruising low over the parking lot of the State Park, heading towards the lighthouse...likely the same bird reported (and highly photographed due to excellent looks) two days earlier, hunting in the field off of Seagrove Avenue, in Cape May Point. Being that there were no other birders around, and I didn't have a working cell phone, I rushed to the Northwood Center (local CMBO store very close by), I found and informed Mike Crewe, and after ~15 minutes  from my initial sighting he sent a rare-bird alert out (KEEKEEKERR). I do not now if the bird was relocated thereafter.

Below I posted some decent photos I took; well, decent considering I only used a Canon Power Shot held up to a scope?...good birding to all!

Great Egret

Forster's Terns

Piping Plover

Piping Plover noticing me!

Snowy Egret

Tree Swallow