South Cape May Meadows - Monday October 31st 2011

Good ducks, nice look at Wilson's Snipe and good scope views of American Bittern.
63 species

Canada Goose 100
Mute Swan 12
Gadwall 25
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 20
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail 8
Green-winged Teal 15
Ring-necked Duck 2
Surf Scoter 10
Hooded Merganser 1
Ruddy Duck 4
Red-throated Loon 3
Common Loon 2
Pied-billed Grebe 4
Double-crested Cormorant 100
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 5
Osprey 4
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 5
Sharp-shinned Hawk 6
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Coot 50
Killdeer 1
Sanderling 25
Least Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Wilson's Snipe 4
Laughing Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 5
Herring Gull 15
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Forster's Tern 5
Royal Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 20
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 50
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 50
American Pipit 5
Palm Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 25
Savannah Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 10
Swamp Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Eastern Meadowlark 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 30
House Sparrow 4

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (

American Bitterns have been a regular feature of The Meadows over the past few days [photo by Karl Lukens].
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