Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, July 11th, 2014

Highlights of the walk include: Great Horned Owl perched in full sunlight; Green Heron; Black-crowned Night-Herons; Bald Eagle which forced Osprey to drop fish; Least Tern chicks; and young Willets. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Kathy Horn, and Carrie Bell.
55 species

Canada Goose  30
Mute Swan  8
Gadwall  3
Mallard  60
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  2
Green Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  9
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  5
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
American Oystercatcher  11
Killdeer  7
Spotted Sandpiper  18     six on ground by pond closest to Cape May; small flock
flying over our heads and calling
Greater Yellowlegs  6
Willet  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Least Sandpiper  53
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  4
Laughing Gull  15
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  4
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  35
Least Tern  20
Common Tern  6
Forster's Tern  22
Black Skimmer  5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  6
Great Horned Owl  1
Chimney Swift  2
Eastern Kingbird  6
Fish Crow  1     heard
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  8
American Robin  15
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  6
Cedar Waxwing  15
Common Yellowthroat  3     heard only
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  5
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  3

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