Karl Lukens reports:
"CMBO Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne. High water due to recent rains caused mudflats and edges to disappear and thus less shorebirds. ducks were good with both Blue- and Green-winged Teal present. The Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks were not present for the walk but appeared about 45 min. later and this time there were 4!! along with 3 Broad-winged Hawks overhead. Usual suspects on the beach with many Semi-palmated Plover and a report of a Piping Plover probably the last of the fledged birds on this beach."
Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 8/23/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-PD,KL,CS,DL,SW,+30.Clr,70,NNW6.
Number of species: 59
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 4 After walk now 4 BBWDs!!
Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 6
Gadwall 2
Mallard 25
Blue-winged Teal 4
Green-winged Teal 1
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 6
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 3
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 1 juv
Broad-winged Hawk 3 After walk
Semipalmated Plover 50
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1 fly over
Lesser Yellowlegs 9
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 25
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15 fly over and standing
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 30
Ring-billed Gull 8
Herring Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Least Tern 30 3 fledglings
Common Tern 5
Forster's Tern 5
Royal Tern 5
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 20
Chimney Swift 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 8
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 8
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 3
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 15
Cedar Waxwing 20
Yellow Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Blue Grosbeak 2
Bobolink 10
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Common Grackle 5
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 1
