karl lukens reports: "CMBO Evening walk at "The Meadows" - TNC. Good variety of waders, shorebirds and lots of Least Terns adult and juvenile on the beach. Highlight again was the Great Horned Owl sitting on the same branch as previous weeks. Nice! Also good dragonflies and butterflies. - Karl (Chuck, Mary Jane, Kathy, Roger, Mike H.)"
Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 7/30/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-KL,C&MJS,K&RH,MH,+4.PtlySun,74,SE5.
Number of species: 49
Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 10
Mallard 30
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 15
Snowy Egret 5
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Semipalmated Plover 4
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 12
American Oystercatcher 6
Spotted Sandpiper 5
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet 7 fly by on ocean
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Sanderling 50
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Least Sandpiper 25
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 6
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Least Tern 250
Common Tern 15
Forster's Tern 15
Black Skimmer 15
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 49
Great Horned Owl 1 /p same spot as last week and 5 weeks ago!
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 4
Barn Swallow 3
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 15
Cedar Waxwing 3
Common Yellowthroat 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 1
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 5
