South Cape May Meadows - Monday, July 26, 2010

Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 7/26/10
Notes: CMBO Monday Meadows Walk. P. Dunne, D. Freiday, D. Lord, W. Cairo, K. Lukens, J. Crawford, C&MJ Slugg, M. Hannisian. weather broke with front last night, 70's, drier, wind n, sometimes nw or ne, 10ish. Fabulous dragonfly movement.
Number of species: 69

Canada Goose 50
Mute Swan 15
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 8 hen with almost grown brood
Mallard 35
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 10
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 5
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 1 flyby pre-walk
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 20
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 10
Bald Eagle 1
Semipalmated Plover 2
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 20
American Oystercatcher 5
Spotted Sandpiper 8
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 20
Semipalmated Sandpiper 10
Least Sandpiper 80
Stilt Sandpiper 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 2
Laughing Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Least Tern 100
Common Tern 25
Forster's Tern 10
Sterna sp. 100
Royal Tern 3
Black Skimmer 12
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Fish Crow 8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
Purple Martin 75
Tree Swallow 25
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 20
House Wren 2
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 100
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 10
Louisiana Waterthrush 3 flyovers at parking lot
Common Yellowthroat 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 2
Bobolink 5
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 15