Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 7/5/10
Notes: CMBO meadows walk. partly cloudy, hazy, 70's, wind w 10ish. D. Freiday, C&MJ Slugg, D. Lord, J. Crawford, B&L Smythe, K&R Horn.
Number of species: 53
Canada Goose 150
Mute Swan 20
Gadwall 1
Mallard 30
Great Blue Heron 4 3 flyovers, 1 perched in tree
Great Egret 6 flyovers
Snowy Egret 4 flyovers from n
Green Heron 2 flyovers from n
Glossy Ibis 25 most flyovers
Osprey 3
Piping Plover 5 4 adults 1 fledgling (fully feathered) on beach
Killdeer 15
American Oystercatcher 9 6 adults, 2 young chicks, 1 fledged chick
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 1 flyover
Lesser Yellowlegs 10 all but 1 flyovers
Least Sandpiper 8 feeding
Laughing Gull 200
Ring-billed Gull 1 adult
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Least Tern 75 several downy chicks
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 6
Royal Tern 1
Black Skimmer 20 still in scrape area, fewer than last week
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 8
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 1 fledged juv flyover
Fish Crow 5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 1 heard leader only
Tufted Titmouse 2
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 100
Yellow Warbler 1 at dunes, migrant
Common Yellowthroat 4
Northern Cardinal 5
Blue Grosbeak 3 1 imm male, 1 female near lot; 1 ad male se corner trails
Bobolink 2 the one seen was adult male
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Common Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Orchard Oriole 1 glimpse leader only
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 20
