Foggy weather reduced visibility and bird movements, but we still enjoyed a nice range of birds, including some very close Semipalmated Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers, side-by-side comparison of Forster's and Common Terns and we worried for the Piping Plovers who put on a full distraction display to lure a Fish Crow away from their nest.
Location: Cape Island--Cape May Migratory Bird Sanctuary (Meadows)
Observation date: 5/24/10
Number of species: 48
Canada Goose 15
Mute Swan 8
Gadwall 5
Mallard 6
Blue-winged Teal 1
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 4
Green Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 3
Osprey 3
Black-bellied Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 10
Piping Plover 5
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 4
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Willet 2
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Least Sandpiper 6
Laughing Gull 15
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 9
Least Tern 15
Common Tern 10
Forster's Tern 20
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 5
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 2
Purple Martin 6
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Wren 1
Marsh Wren 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 5
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
House Sparrow 4
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