South Cape May Meadows - Monday August 8th 2011

Lots of birds especially waders, with 87 Snowy Egrets and 45 Great Egrets feeding and flying over. Also good terns with the highlight being two close fly-over Sandwich Terns.
62 species

Canada Goose 25
Mute Swan 10
Mallard 25
Green-winged Teal 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 45
Snowy Egret 87
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 17
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Semipalmated Plover 10
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 6
American Oystercatcher 3
Spotted Sandpiper 7
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 20
Sanderling 15
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
Least Sandpiper 25
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 6
Laughing Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Least Tern 5
Common Tern 50
Forster's Tern 20
Royal Tern 12
Sandwich Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 20
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 2
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 2000
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 1
Carolina Wren 1
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 15
Cedar Waxwing 8
Yellow Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 2
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Common Grackle 5
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 10

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