Adult Lesser Black-backed Gull amonst a nice mix of Great Black-backed, American Herring, Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls. Still no-one can tell me why gulls stare at the ground around their feet so much! [Photo by Mike Crewe]
Nice variety of birds this morning with numerous raptors, waders, and ducks. Highlights were an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull and a fly-over Hudsonian Godwit and four distant Brown Pelicans. We also had a leader and a few others hear a Sora and a nice sighting of a "green Budgie" on the wires with Starlings!!
Karl (Pete, Chuck, Mary Jane, Janet, David, Mike H.)
Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 9/20/10
Notes: CMBO Trip-PD,KL,C&MJS,MH,DL,JC,+30.Clr,68,N12.
Number of species: 61
Canada Goose 40
Mute Swan 12
Wood Duck 1
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 30
Blue-winged Teal 10
Northern Shoveler 4
Green-winged Teal 20
Brown Pelican 4
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 5
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 5
Bald Eagle 3
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 6
Cooper's Hawk 2
American Kestrel 4
Merlin 3
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 7
Hudsonian Godwit 1 fly-over
Semipalmated Sandpiper 4
Least Sandpiper 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 3
Short-billed Dowitcher 8
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 20
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 /p ad
Great Black-backed Gull 35
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 1
Royal Tern 30
Black Skimmer 50 far on 2nd ave beach
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Northern Flicker 6
American Crow 5
Fish Crow 1
Tree Swallow 2000
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 75
Palm Warbler 3
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Northern Cardinal 2
Bobolink 15
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Sparrow 5
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