South Cape May Meadows - Monday September 12th 2011

Several varieties of ducks, and a few shorebirds here and there. Lots of terns including three late Least Terns. Two Bald eagles, several Merlins, American Kestrels, as well as Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks. Interesting was a pair of Royal Terns overhead squabbling over a fish which one dropped on the path in front of the group. It was a six-inch Bluefish!
60 species

Canada Goose 20
Mute Swan 6
Gadwall 3
American Wigeon 2
Mallard 35
Blue-winged Teal 8
Northern Shoveler 2
Green-winged Teal 8
Double-crested Cormorant 20
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 1
Glossy Ibis 8
Osprey 3
Bald Eagle 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Kestrel 8
Merlin 4
Semipalmated Plover 1
Sanderling 20
Semipalmated Sandpiper 4
Least Sandpiper 4
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull 75
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 15
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 30
Least Tern 3
Common Tern 10
Forster's Tern 10
Royal Tern 20
Black Skimmer 200 at 2nd ave beach
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Kingbird 10
American Crow 10
Tree Swallow 100
Barn Swallow 10
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 15
Northern Waterthrush 3
Common Yellowthroat 3
Yellow Warbler 4
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 3
Bobolink 10
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 2
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 1

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A dozing Least Sandpiper on South Cape May beach. Most birds are now these lovely, fresh youngsters.

Second-calendar year Lesser Black-backed Gull with American Herring Gulls and a brutal Great Black-back!

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