Sunset Birding at South Cape May Meadows - Friday, September 2nd 2011

High water level is good for ducks and not so for shorebirds. We did find several Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal with the Mallards. Otherwise a Caspian Tern amonst the Royals and Commons was nice to see and an American Moorhen was a bonus (strangely now called a gallinule - which it isn't!!!).
43 species

Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 5
Mallard 35
Blue-winged Teal 2
Green-winged Teal 4
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Common Gallinule 1
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 6
Least Sandpiper 4
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 1000
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Caspian Tern 1
Black Tern 1
Common Tern 25
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 3
Black Skimmer 20
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 1
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 10
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 3
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 2
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 10

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