South Cape May Meadows - Monday September 5th 2011

High water good for ducks, not so for shorebirds. Numerous Blue-winged Teal with some Green-winged Teal amonst the Mallards. Terns and gulls in the thousands from the Bunker to 2nd ave. Lots of Black Skimmers flying, feeding and roosting. Also had a Blue Grosbeak and Indigo Bunting.
47 species

Canada Goose 15
Mute Swan 8
Mallard 30
Blue-winged Teal 8
Green-winged Teal 6
Black Scoter 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 3
Osprey 2
Semipalmated Plover 2
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Sanderling 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Common Tern 100
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 40
Black Skimmer 200
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 8
Belted Kingfisher 1
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 40
Barn Swallow 15
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Yellow Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 50
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 2
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 5

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Indigo Buntings sure aren't as spiffy now as they were in the Spring!
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