South Cape May Meadows - Monday October 17th 2011

Lots of raptors, including Sharp-shinned & Cooper's Hawks, Northern Harriers, two Peregrines, and two Bald Eagles, one sitting on the beach! Also a good variety of ducks, plus a few shorebirds present which included a White-rumped and three Stilt Sandpipers, a Dunlin and four Wilson's Snipe. A Lesser Black-backed Gull was on the beach and a couple of Northern Gannets flew by off shore.
60 species

Cackling Goose 1
Canada Goose 75
Mute Swan 6
Gadwall 5
American Wigeon 1
Mallard 30
Blue-winged Teal 8
Northern Pintail 12
Green-winged Teal 4
Surf Scoter 6
Pied-billed Grebe 5
Northern Gannet 3
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 1 Fly-over
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk 25
Cooper's Hawk 3
American Kestrel 2
Peregrine Falcon 2
American Coot 3
Greater Yellowlegs 1 heard
Lesser Yellowlegs 1 fly-over
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 1
Stilt Sandpiper 3
Wilson's Snipe 4
Laughing Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Forster's Tern 10
Royal Tern 2
Parasitic Jaeger 1 (leader only)
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2 fly-over
Mourning Dove 5
Northern Flicker 5
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 500
Barn Swallow 3
Carolina Wren 1 heard
American Robin 30
European Starling 10
Palm Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 50
Swamp Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 1
Dickcissel 1 heard
Bobolink 3
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 2
House Finch 5
House Sparrow 5

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Stilt Sandpipers at the South Cape May Meadows

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