South Cape May Meadows - Monday August 29th 2011

Standing water prevented walking out to the beach, but we were still able to find shorebirds from the dune cross-over. Still American Oystercatchers and Piping Plovers with Semipalmated, Least and White-rumped Sandpipers and a few Ruddy Turnstones. Also a couple of Bank Swallows and a close fly-over Peregrine.
61 species

Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 4
Mallard 35
Blue-winged Teal 5
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 4
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Semipalmated Plover 2
Piping Plover 3
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 5
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Whimbrel 4
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Red Knot 1
Sanderling 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Least Sandpiper 1
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Black Tern 5
Common Tern 1 0
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 10
Sandwich Tern 1
Black Skimmer 25
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
Fish Crow 5
Purple Martin 8
Tree Swallow 5
Bank Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Wren 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Common Yellowthroat 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 10
Bobolink 5
Red-winged Blackbird 75
Common Grackle 5
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 2

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Piping Plovers enjoying an extra strand line to patrol at South Cape May Beach [Photo by Karl Lukens]