Sunset Birding at South Cape May Meadows - Friday July 1st 2011

South Cape May Meadows, Cape May, US-NJ
Jul 1, 2011 6:30 PM - 8:20 PM
Beautiful weather. Oystercatcher chicks almost full size, as was one Piping Plover chick. One very small, and one almost fledged, Least Tern chicks. Two Willets were probably migrants.

41 species
Canada Goose 15
Mute Swan 4
Gadwall 1
Mallard 25
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 3
Glossy Ibis 7
Turkey Vulture 2
Piping Plover 4
Killdeer 12
American Oystercatcher 11
Greater Yellowlegs 1 heard
Willet 2
Laughing Gull 25
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 30
Least Tern 100
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 20
Black Skimmer 4
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 5
Eastern Kingbird 1
Fish Crow 8
Purple Martin 3
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 4
American Robin 5
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 150
Common Yellowthroat 2 heard
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 4
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 5

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