CMBO Evening Walk at the "Meadows" - TNC. Usual suspects, i.e., waders and shorebirds, but the hit of the walk were the young chicks of the Piping Plovers, and Least Terns.
Karl (Chuck, Mary Jane, Kathy, Roger)
Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 7/16/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-KL,C&MJS,K&RH,+5.PtlySun,80,S10.
Number of species: 42
Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 3
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 35
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 7
Snowy Egret 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 223
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Piping Plover 5 2 chicks
Killdeer 10
American Oystercatcher 6
Spotted Sandpiper 8
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 12
Laughing Gull 10
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 6
Least Tern 50 6 young
Common Tern 25
Forster's Tern 6
Black Skimmer 22
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 4
Barn Swallow 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 20
Cedar Waxwing 1
Common Yellowthroat 6
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Sparrow 5
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
