Highlights of the walk include: Great Horned Owl perched in full sunlight; Green Heron; Black-crowned Night-Herons; Bald Eagle which forced Osprey to drop fish; Least Tern chicks; and young Willets. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Kathy Horn, and Carrie Bell.
55 species
Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 8
Gadwall 3
Mallard 60
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 9
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 5
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
American Oystercatcher 11
Killdeer 7
Spotted Sandpiper 18 six on ground by pond closest to Cape May; small flock
flying over our heads and calling
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Willet 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Least Sandpiper 53
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 4
Laughing Gull 15
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 4
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 35
Least Tern 20
Common Tern 6
Forster's Tern 22
Black Skimmer 5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 4
Mourning Dove 6
Great Horned Owl 1
Chimney Swift 2
Eastern Kingbird 6
Fish Crow 1 heard
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 15
Tree Swallow 4
Barn Swallow 8
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 6
Cedar Waxwing 15
Common Yellowthroat 3 heard only
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 5
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 3
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