Sunset Birding at South Cape May Meadows - Friday, October 7th 2011

Lots of gulls on the beach with a few Royal Terns and two American Oystercatchers. Merlins (8) were numerous. Only shorebirds were three Lesser Yellowlegs and one Dunlin aside from the Sanderlings on the beach.
43 species

Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 5
Gadwall 2
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 15
Blue-winged Teal 10
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail 4
Green-winged Teal 10
Ruddy Duck 2
Pied-billed Grebe 4
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 3
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 2
Merlin 8
American Oystercatcher 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Sanderling 25
Dunlin 1
Laughing Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 50
Common Tern 8
Forster's Tern 50
Royal Tern 3
Mourning Dove 5
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 500
Carolina Wren 1
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 10
Common Yellowthroat 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 5

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