Sunset Birding at South Cape May Meadows - Friday, September 9th 2011

Lots of gulls and terns including Royal and one Black Tern plus loads of Black Skimmers. Interesting birds were a fly-over, calling Whimbrel and two Western Willets on the beach. Blue- and Green-winged Teal were amongst the Mallards.
37 species

Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 6
Mallard 40
Blue-winged Teal 8
Green-winged Teal 6
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 4
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 3
American Oystercatcher 3
Willet 2 * inornata (Western)
Whimbrel 1
Sanderling 25
Laughing Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Black Tern 1
Common Tern 15
Forster's Tern 5
Royal Tern 10
Black Skimmer 200
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 3
American Crow 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 2

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