Evening at the Meadows - Friday, September 24 2010

Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 9/24/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-KL,PR,DL,+19.Clr,78,S13. Very windy but shorebirds and ducks made for good birding. A Wilson's Snipe gave us great scope views for 10 minutes. Passerines were hard to come by.
Number of species: 40

Canada Goose 75
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 5
American Wigeon 6
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 25
Blue-winged Teal 8
Northern Shoveler 4
Northern Pintail 1 fly-over
Green-winged Teal 15
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 6
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Sora 1 heard
Semipalmated Plover 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 7
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 7
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Wilson's Snipe 1 /p
Laughing Gull 35
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Caspian Tern 1
Royal Tern 25
Black Skimmer 70 at 2nd ave. 1 sitting in meadow
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 8
Carolina Wren 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 25
House Sparrow 1