CMBO Walk with Pete Dunne at the South Cape May Meadows - TNC. We were greeted at the parking lot at the beginning and at the end of the walk by a happily singing Indigo Bunting. Unusual finds included single Black and Surf Scoters not far off shore. The hit of the walk however, was the pair of American Oystercatchers and their 3 chicks ...aaaaah!
Karl (Pete, Steve, Chuck, Mary Jane, Kathy, Roger, Judy, Tom)
Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 5/31/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-PD,KL,JL,TP,SW,C&MJ,K&RH,+12.Clr,72,S3.
Number of species: 56
Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 4Mallard 18
Surf Scoter 1
Black Scoter 1
Northern Gannet 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 2
Osprey 4
Broad-winged Hawk 1Black-bellied Plover 1 heard
Semipalmated Plover 2
Piping Plover 4
Killdeer 3
American Oystercatcher 8 3 young
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Willet 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5
Least Sandpiper 10
Short-billed Dowitcher 15
Laughing Gull 25
Herring Gull 2Great Black-backed Gull 10
Least Tern 30
Common Tern 10
Forster's Tern 25
Black Skimmer 6
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 5
Chimney Swift 5
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 10
Horned Lark 1 heardTree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 15
Marsh Wren 2
American Robin 2
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 1 heard
Common Yellowthroat 6
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Common Grackle 25Boat-tailed Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 5
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)
Fluffy bundles of joy - young American Oystercatchers continue to delight our groups on Cape May's South Beach [Photo by Karl Lukens]
