South Cape May Meadows - Monday September 26th 2011

A good variety of ducks,  several raptors and a few passerines. Included in the latter were Chestnut-sided and Bay-breasted Warblers. Lots of gulls and terns including three Caspian, 56 Royals and two adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls. A few at the head of the group got to see a SORA (not on the list) as we finished the walk.
45 species

Canada Goose  30
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  2
American Wigeon  1
Mallard  30
Blue-winged Teal  5
Northern Shoveler  12
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal  25
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  1
Osprey  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  6
Cooper's Hawk  2
American Kestrel  2
Black-bellied Plover  8
Sanderling  15
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  10
Herring Gull  20
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  100
Caspian Tern  3
Forster's Tern  8
Royal Tern  56
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  5
Red-eyed Vireo  4
Blue Jay  3
Fish Crow  5
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  12
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  25
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  4
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
House Sparrow  1

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Two views of the adult Lesser Black-backed Gull at South Cape May Beach - note how small it is next to the Great Black-back in the second picture.