Sunset Birding at South Cape May Meadows - Friday, August 5th 2011

Good shorebirds including both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers and two Pectoral Sandpipers. Piping Plover and chick on beach as well as the usual American Oystercatchers.
41 species

Canada Goose 15
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 6
Mallard 15
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 5
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 10
Turkey Vulture 1
Piping Plover 2 one chick
Killdeer 8
American Oystercatcher 4
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Sanderling 15
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
Least Sandpiper 20
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 2
Laughing Gull 250
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Least Tern 6
Common Tern 50
Forster's Tern 1
Royal Tern 10
Mourning Dove 5
Chimney Swift 2
Eastern Kingbird 3
Purple Martin 1
Barn Swallow 1
Carolina Wren 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 15
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 5

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