Sunset Birding at South Cape May Meadows - Friday July 29th 2011

South Cape May Meadows, Cape May, Jul 29, 2011 6:30 PM - 8:20 PM
Good numbers of Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers, plus the usual American Oystercatchers and Piping Plovers. Terns - especially Least - not as numerous. One Lesser Black-backed Gull on the beach. Good looks at a singing Indigo Bunting.
50 species

Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 5
Gadwall 1
Mallard 25
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Little Blue Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3
Osprey 1
Semipalmated Plover 8
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 10
American Oystercatcher 4
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 1 fly-over
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Sanderling 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper 20
Least Sandpiper 30
Short-billed Dowitcher 5 fly-over
Laughing Gull 75
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 35
Least Tern 5
Common Tern 25
Forster's Tern 10
Mourning Dove 15
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
American Crow 2
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 2
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 50
Cedar Waxwing 3
Yellow Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 2
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 4
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 2

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There's definitely a hint of brown sneaking into the Indigo Bunting plumages now!