South Cape May Meadows - Monday August 15th 2011

South Cape May Meadows, Cape May, Aug 15, 2011 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Light rain at the beginning and then cloudy. Lots of shore birds and waders both fly-over and feeding.
At least one White-rumped and one Stilt Sandpiper amongst the many Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers.
54 species

Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 2
Mallard 25
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 25
Snowy Egret 11
Green Heron 1
Black-bellied Plover 1 heard
Semipalmated Plover 15
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 7
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 15
Semipalmated Sandpiper 30
Least Sandpiper 15
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Least Tern 1
Common Tern 10
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 12
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 12
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 6
Tree Swallow 30
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Wren 2
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 15
Common Yellowthroat 2
Northern Cardinal 5
Red-winged Blackbird 75
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 5

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