CMBO Morning Walk at the "Meadows" (TNC). Good variety this morning starting with a singing Blue Grosbeak. Young Piping Plovers and Least Terns were visible on the beach along with American Oystercatchers and Black Skimmers. Other shorebirds included Spotted, Solitary and Least Sandpipers, Killdeer, both Yellowlegs and Short-billed Dowitchers. A Black Duck and a family of Gadwalls were among the Mallards.
Karl (Pete, Chuck, Mary Jane, Steve, David, Janet, Tom)
Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 7/12/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-PD,KL,C&MJS,DL,SW,JC,TP,+15.PtlySun,80,SSE8.
Number of species: 59
Canada Goose 165
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 10
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 30
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 4
Snowy Egret 4
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 19
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 4
Piping Plover 5 two new chicks
Killdeer 12
American Oystercatcher 7
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Solitary Sandpiper 3 fly over
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 15
Short-billed Dowitcher 5
Laughing Gull 30
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Least Tern 75 several young
Common Tern 5
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 2
Black Skimmer 18
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 20
Chimney Swift 5
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 5
Fish Crow 5
Purple Martin 10
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 2 heard
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 fly over
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 50
Cedar Waxwing 2
Common Yellowthroat 5
Song Sparrow 1 heard
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
Orchard Oriole 1 leader only fly-by before walk
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 10
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